Rahm Emanuel: There is no law.

by | Apr 19, 2009 | Torture | 50 comments

This society is ruled only by the will of men. Don’t you ever lie to your younger kin and tell them otherwise.

Update: Robert “Obama’s Ari Fleischer” Gibbs is forced by a CNN reporter to demonstrate the abject hollowness of the administration’s absurd substitute for a legitimate argument why the law shouldn’t count in this case:

Via Glenn Greenwald.

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