[Peace-discuss] The Torture question?

[C. G. Estabrook]

The senator was apaprenly not aware of Article 1, Section 6 of the 1787 
Constitution of the United States, currently in force:

"The Senators and Representatives ... shall in all Cases, except 
Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest 
during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and 
in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in 
either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

Or he was playing by some other "rules of the game." --CGE


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> An excerpt from Ray McGovern's article entitled "Are Americans really 
> better than that?"
> 
> http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/12/5794/
> 
> …Senator Dick Durbin of the Senate Intelligence Committee has complained 
> that he was aware that classified information did not justify the 
> conclusion in 2002 that Iraq had unconventional weapons, but he could 
> not say anything because it was classified! Durbin explained:
> 
> /…We’re duty-bound once we enter that room to respect classified 
> information. Everything you hear is supposed to stay in the room…I 
> certainly had enough to know that the statements that were made about 
> mushroom clouds were not the conclusions of someone in the 
> administration who was really being honest about the full debate. But 
> you really know, walking in the room, what the rules of the game will be.…/
> ...