BUSH AIDE MADE LEGAL CASE FOR VICIOUS DICTATORSHIP

[kpete]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040502099.htmlSunday, April 6, 2008
BUSH AIDE MADE LEGAL CASE FOR VICIOUS DICTATORSHIP


DAN EGGEN WASHINGTON POST Thirty pages into a memorandum discussing the legal boundaries of military interrogations in 2003, senior Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo tackled a question not often asked by American policymakers: Could the president, if he desired, have a prisoner's eyes poked out?


Or, for that matter, could he have "scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance" thrown on a prisoner? How about slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb? What about biting?

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In the sober language of footnotes, case citations and judicial rulings, the memo explores a wide range of unsavory topics, from the use of mind-altering drugs on captives to the legality of forcing prisoners to squat on their toes in a "frog crouch." It repeats an assertion in another controversial Yoo memo that an interrogation tactic cannot be considered torture unless it would result in "death, organ failure or serious impairment of bodily functions."


Yoo, who is now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, also uses footnotes to effectively dismiss the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution, arguing that protections against unreasonable search and seizure and guarantees of due process either do not apply or are irrelevant in a time of war.


more at:
http://prorev.com/2008/04/bush-aide-made-legal-case-for-vicious.html

[Warpy]

1. I think Yoo should be forced to test out everything

It repeats an assertion in another controversial Yoo memo that an interrogation tactic cannot be considered torture unless it would result in "death, organ failure or serious impairment of bodily functions."

I'm sure he'd feel a bit differently after a series of shocks delivered to wires inserted into his scrotum.

Yoo is scum. He should be out of government and in an institution for the criminally insane, heavily medicated out of his sadistic fantasies for other people.

[aquart]

5. What he should NOT be allowed to do is teach law.

And his memos should be a separate course in unacceptable behavior for attorneys. You know, like in ETHICS.

[jimshoes]

2. Mayhe live to eat the fruit

of that evil tree he has planted. And not in a good way.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Yoo first! scumbag!

[lonestarnot]

4. I hope students give him hell in his class.

[gristy]

8. My guess is he will be gone within a year

At a minimum not teaching anymore
https://calnet.berkeley.edu/directory/details.pl?uid=13807">John Yoo contact info

[lonestarnot]

10. Thanks for the link!

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Professor Yoo is a war criminal and should be treated like one

He should save all his excuses for the tribunal in The Hague.

[Red Zelda]

7. What would you do to stop this?

Considering the NOTHING average Dumbfuckistanoids have done to stop Gitmo, what's to stop Bush from cutting off your kid's balls on a whim?

[sam sarrha]

9. th Thugs cant forget the raging Hard-On that Torturing 240,000 people to death in South America gave

gave them.. F'n blood thirsty murders... read "The Shock Doctrine":the rise of disaster capitalism by Naomi Klein...

the truth of what happened under Reagan has been covered up all these years, exposed by Naomi Klein.. it was all done in service to their economic theory that they still advocate and are preparing to impose on us..

[bobthedrummer]

11. It's been developing for decades, despite the calls for accountability and reform.

"The Pike Committee" (archived GD thread started 3-11-2008)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2990965

Now "it" is here, just baby steps from totalitarianism.

[Eric J in MN]

12. California taxpayers are funding his teaching those values...

...to UC Berkeley students.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. So he argued for the kind of tactics used by Chile

and argentina during the dirty war?

All those things come home... and now they have.

the question is what the hell are WE going to do about them since our Congress is either scared (likely) or fully complicit (more likely) and raking the dollars in?

[happydreams]

14. FUCK YOO!!

[Rex]

15. Another idiot taking up precious space in the higher education bracket.

Yoo is qualified to act like a government tool. That is about it.

[samsingh]

16. not surprising

[onehandle]

17. Kick. nt