Law & Order > Bush torturers prosecuted!

[elleng]

[jtrockville]

1. Is the professor supposed to be Yoo?

[elleng]

3. Yup!

"Mr. Yoo, what is it about this country that you just don't get?"

[BlueJazz]

2. Good show..so far. Did you see the Cockroaches come crawling out of the wall?

PS: Didn't know Roaches could file motions

[elleng]

4. Don't think roaches are that smart.

[Hissyspit]

5. I know:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6628725&mesg_id=6628725

[Cha]

6. Good..let Life inmitate

art in this case.

[elleng]

14. But DC shut them down!

Watching Rachel now, for 'real life.' BLAH!

[Vadem]

7. It wasn't on in Alexandria, VA--the story was about a homeless

Marine; which States was it shown in? Interesting to find out.

[Hissyspit]

9. What channel??

[Vadem]

10. Channel 4 in the DC metro area--NBC.... n/t

[Hissyspit]

11. Interesting. Deliberate censorship, I wonder.

[Vadem]

12. I was thinking the very same thing. Censorship in DC--won't be..

the first time, I'm sure!

[Hissyspit]

13. What was the nature of the special on the homeless Marine?

Was it the news department or something that seemed like they just used to fill time?

[Vadem]

16. I only watched the first 10 minutes--it showed a man giving a vet

a pocketful of money after he asked him if he were a Marine; the Marine had a Viet Nam Vet badge on his uniform; the Marine thanked him profusely and the generous man walked away; the next scene was obviously about a slain man who was a Marine.

I changed the channel then because it was not about the prosecution of Bush's torture attorneys.

[Hissyspit]

17. Wow. I think that was deliberate.

[Gwendolyn]

18. No, that was it. You should have stuck with it.

The murder is tied to the justice dept. That's how the whole plot reveals itself, through the dead vet.

[Hissyspit]

21. Thanks. I didn't make the connection because I missed the first 10 minutes.

[Gwendolyn]

24. Well at least now you know how it started without having to wait for re-run season.

:D

[Vadem]

25. Well, Dang! You mean I missed the show because of the opening?

I'm chagrined and disappointed! I thought sure that opening had nothing to do with the Bush torture memos!

[man4allcats]

20. Actually, that IS the episode. I almost changed the channel too

but decided to see where it went. The man (himself an Iraq war vet) who gave the Marine money was slain by, as it turns out, the law professor (the Yoo-like character). The prosecution realized they wouldn't be able to get this guy on that particular charge but that they might get him for war crime type torture based in part on evidence in the form of a video left behind by the vet he killed. It was a pretty good episode, but unfortunately it was something of a foregone conclusion that the feds would come up with some way to subvert justice, and of course they did.

[Hissyspit]

22. Thanks. I missed the first ten minutes.

[JSK]

27. That was it!

The homeless vet was a guard at Abu Ghraib.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Sad you didn't stick with it. It was about torture and a must see. Most Law and Order

episodes start in one direction and wind up in another.

The former Marine was suffering from PTSD because he saw torture of prisoners. He was trying to seek out the former Bush lawyer, who wrote the policy to confront him on it. In doing so, he was murdered by the lawyer..supposedly in self-defense.

So Jack, being Jack, decides to go after the lawyer for illegally torturing prisoners. He also names all of the higher ups, including Cheney as co-conspirators.

If we only had a Jack McCoy in real life......

[Vadem]

19. It was Law and Order, not a special show--that is why I was

disappointed that it wasn't showing the new Law and Order show about the prosecution of the Bush torture lawyers.

[elleng]

15. Was on here in Hagerstown, MD.

[Hissyspit]

23. Yeah, we figured it out. Vadem only saw the first 10 minutes...

and I only saw the last fifty! :shrug:

[elleng]

26. Good!

Didn't think it likely that Virginia or DC would be excluded!

[Hissyspit]

8. Interesting ending to the episode. Not unexpected, though.

[flakban]

28. I think they did a nice job of expressing the magnitude of federal government corruption involved,

as well as the degree of resistance such corruption can present to the pursuit of justice in this matter.

[Nikki Stone1]

29. The episode is called Memo From the Dark Side.

So far, I can only find bits and pieces on line.