Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Feeling Safer Yet?

John Yoo's memo telling Bu$hCo that in America it is just fine to torture someone. Unfuckingbelieveable. What a ethical standard.
The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.
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In his 2007 book, "The Terror Presidency," Jack Goldsmith, who took over the Office of Legal Counsel after Yoo departed, writes that the two memos "stood out" for "the unusual lack of care and sobriety in their legal analysis."
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Martin S. Lederman, a former lawyer with the Office of Legal Counsel who now teaches law at Georgetown University, said the Yoo memo helped create a legal environment that allowed prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib.


Here's the s.o.b. who allowed Bu$hCo to drag America even lower. How does this bastard sleep at night? Oh, & Berkeley must be so, so proud of its employee.

John C. Yoo, now a law professor in Berkeley, Calif., defended his memo, saying,

John C. Yoo

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