TPMtv: A Chat with Dahlia Lithwick

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: At Netroots Nation down in Austin two weeks ago, TPMtv caught up with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and picked her brain about just what post-Bush accountability means. Is it really all or nothing? Sweep it under the rug versus Nuremberg trials, or are there a lot more grey areas in just how we pick up the pieces? That, and what might be in store for the Supreme Court under a President McCain.

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[MooseOfReason]

My vote's for a war crimes trial.

We don't need anymore fact-finding.

[SubmarinerAndroid]

I'm for fair and public Nuremberg-style trials, with death as the ultimate possible penalty. Nothing less will send a sufficiently strong message to future would-be dictatorial Presidents. This is not about partisanship, it's about preserving the United States as we know it, a constitutional republic.

[Tsang8406]

*Gulp* !!! hey is that you ?

I've been on a cam chat with this chick

I've checked my bookmarks and here is da link @ DateHerSafe(')com/profile?=177­8

[x0mrgrinch0x]

this lady is an idiot

[CrewSBigFun]

want to chat with singles

looking for friends yW

[ba2rn3]

i just got out of the shower and im still naked xD r

[freightmaster2]

Looks like you two have missed the entire point in this video! Does the word fascism mean anything to you?

[rarelibra]

straw man ruse? Dickhead - you should be thanking me for the rights you enjoy to have your 'we' complex and your freedom. People like you are the reason we need backup anyway - because you can't fend for yourself and be a real man. So be it. Stop the we shit, it's getting old.

[rarelibra]

Hey nicholas - you are too stupid and too self-righteous to get what real life is all about - the yin and yang, the good and evil - you can't have utopia, loser. Your schizo friends are the voices in your head that cause you to say "we" (or the mouse in your pocket). You are obviously too weak to stand on your own opinion, so you psychologically attempt to back yourself up with "we". That's called pronoun trouble. But you are hard pressed with research against crime rate and population size.

[nicholas9999]

rare: Does that straw man ruse actually work for you? You actually have not a clue what I want. You're an idiot who makes up the opinions of others. You're too dishonest for me to talk to anymore. Bye bye. You're blocked from my e-mail. Argue with your sick self.

[nicholas9999]

rare: Obviously, you're not aware of what you're writing. First you say I have a "we complex," while mentioning me and my "schizo friends" in the same sentence. This points up the deep sickness that seems to have grabbed you: you really don't get the whole idea of "we" to begin with. Crime rates are ALWAYS relational to population size? You have obviously never heard of cross-cultural research. Go away, you're a sicko.

[rarelibra]

nicholas - again your 'we' complex comes in. The death penalty exists for a reason - you are one of those people who want to save a serial killer because you think he can be 'rehabilitated' - but then you will scream about the death penalty if that killer were to get your spouse, your child, your family member, etc. Hypocrite. You are one of the sheep, crying about the predator wolf - until the wolf takes out the demons that lay around. in YOUR world there would be no police or army, right? Stop