Yoo Won’t Answer Whether President Can Bury Detainees Alive»

[babylonsister]

Aye yai yai...

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/26/yoo-burry-alive/


Yoo Won’t Answer Whether President Can Bury Detainees Alive»

Today, the authors of the Bush administration’s torture policies, David Addington and John Yoo, are testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) asked Yoo whether the president could bury a detainee alive, Yoo stonewalled and ultimately refused to answer the question. He also refused to say if there was any torture tactic the president was prohibited from using. Transcript via Muckracker:

CONYERS: Could the President order a suspect buried alive?

YOO: Uh, Mr. Chairman, I don’t think I’ve ever given advice that the President could order someone buried alive…

CONYERS: I didn’t ask you if you ever gave him advice. I asked you thought the President could order a suspect buried alive.

YOO: Well Chairman, my view right now is that I don’t think a President — no American President would ever have to order that or feel it necessary to order that.

CONYERS: I think we understand the games that are being played.

Watch it at link~

Conyers grew visibly frustrated with Yoo’s stalling techniques. “We’ve all practiced law,” he said with exasperation.

[The Magistrate]

1. Yoo, Ma'am, Deserve To Stand In the Dock Of the Hague....

[TahitiNut]

7. That's far better treatment than he himself grants others.

:grr:

[EFerrari]

9. I heard that a Canadian judge said that the way a Canadian citizen

was treated at Gitmo violates international law. It was in Amy's "headlines".

Canadian Judge: U.S. Treatment of Khadr Amounts to Torture

Meanwhile a Canadian judge has issued a harsh rebuke of the U.S. imprisonment of the Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr. On Wednesday, federal court judge Richard Mosley said Khadr’s treatement has violated international laws against torture. Mosley cited a document detailing a technique used against Kadr during his interrogation. Mosley did not reveal the technique but said it should be publicly exposed. Khadr was fifteen years old when he was arrested by U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

[madokie]

10. He will,

he, right along with a quite a few other cohorts. I'm only sixty years old and I think I have enough years in me that will allow me to be a witness to this trial of trials. Once this ball starts rolling there will be no turning it back nor stopping it and once it starts in earnest it will go very fast. This is a criminal crew who has used the standing in the world that the united states had to invade and now occupy a sovereign nation and in the process destroy it and kill over a million people. More war crimes trials than they will ever have time to try so at some point it will become mute. Lots of misery are in store for this cabal.
That I truly believe

[Gman]

11. Yoo, Addington and many others will get pardons from Bush

but those pardons have no effect in the international community. They're best bet is to never travel overseas after January.

[madokie]

15. Before its all said and done

the US will be forced to turn these war criminals over and our government will comply. This is very serious, a lot bigger than us along, this is on the world stage here. Bushco is not going to walk away from this as free men and women.

[bdamomma]

28. I truly believe if we do not hold them for their crimes someone

else will, or there are people behind the scenes who will arrest them.

[madokie]

33. Me too Alyce, as I keep saying it is proof of that

the crimes commited by this crew is too much to ever see them just walking away as free people. Their day is coming and coming soon. I'm going to be one of those glued to the teevee watching the trials too and I'm sure they will be televised to the whole world too, in real time right then and there as a lesson in the make for what one can not do and expect to get away with it.

[HamdenRice]

16. Point of info, Mag -- why did you call Yoo "Ma'am"?

You usually use the honorific "Sir" for guys. Or were you referring to the poster (in which case it's a conjugation thing: Yoo, Ma'am, deserves...")?

Or is it a pun referring to both that I'm not getting?

I'm curious/confused.

Anyway, regards.

[The Magistrate]

19. Slipped An 'S', Sir, On the End Of What Ought To Be 'Deserves'....

My apologies for the confusion: my typing is no better than my handwriting....

"No fool like an old fool."

[Subdivisions]

2. A very dramatic moment, indeed. Yoo is a war criminal. He should be arrested immediately. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

3. Ahahahahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha.

He knows the answer is 'yes' according to his model of the Executive; if he says 'no,' then he has to explain where the not-okay cutoff is, and that's not a discussion he wants to have. But if he says 'yes,' then he has just admitted that he thinks the President can bury people alive on a whim, and that's not exactly an admission to make before Congress.

What a great exchange.

[The Magistrate]

14. Indeed, Sir: The Silence Confesses Both Legal And Moral Bankruptcy Eloquently

"You might say that: I could not possibly comment."

[BeHereNow]

21. That is what Bugliosi kept saying last night about these people.

NO morality what so ever.
He kept referring to Bush as "the little man."
I think he met "little" in more ways than one.

BHN

[The Magistrate]

26. It Does Have Many Meanings, Ma'am, That Is True

In Confucian usage, it indicates men absolutely unfit to rule others....

[bdamomma]

29. Bugliosi is right, he (* ) is a little man

so why can't anyone rein this SOB in?

[gristy]

4. no words

:(

[EFerrari]

5. Mr. Conyers is allowing the Constitution to be buried alive. n/t

[bdamomma]

30. yea, and with the exception of those 15 Senators who did vote NO

for cloture and the rest of those senators are burying alive the Constitution.

[Ian David]

6. But he's already said The pResident can crush the testicles of a detainee's child. n/t

[bdamomma]

31. if this SOB can go into a country on lies and kills millions of people

and our soldiers he wouldn't think twice of burying someone alive.

[Catherina]

8. I heard part of the exchange this morning on my way to work

God DAMN these bastards!

Conyers was very good.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Phuc Yoo

and his ancestors.

Let's just say that if Yoo, Addington, Rumsfeld, etc. show a hair of their assholes anywhere outside the US, they're FAIR GAME.

:evilfrown:

[Hydra]

13. The fact that Yoo is nervous about this question tells me that it's been done

Yoo takes the stand that the "Commander in Chief" has unlimited power, but when it comes down to the brass tacks, he and the others would prefer to do it without public scrutiny.

Very telling on how legal he really thinks this is.

[Vanje]

17. If Conyers cant get a straight answer from Yoo,,,,,

would it be okay for Congress to strip Yoo naked, put him in a cold room, deprive him of sleep for 5 or 6 days, cover him with his own feces, put a leash on his neck, and a bag on his head, and hang him up in "stress position"?

Clearly conventional questioning is not working. Maybe enhanced interrogation will get some answers out of Mr.Yoo

[babylonsister]

18. I say we bury him alive.

:hide:

[Pastiche423]

20. I second that

[BeHereNow]

23. Make it a REALLY big hole- there are plenty who should join him in that hole.

Kinda Sleezy, Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, George Schultz,
Richard Perle, Joshua Bolton, Karl Rove, hell... we need a REALLY big hole
cause the list just goes on and on.

BHN:mad:

[bdamomma]

32. waterboarding too.

[yardwork]

35. or at the very least waterboard him.

What? He said that waterboarding was fine.

[truebrit71]

22. That should be put to Yoo by Conyers as a question...

...so how quickly that pudgy armchair warrior blanches at THAT thought...

[Ikonoklast]

24. Yes. According to War Criminal Yoo's own opinion

None of that is defined as torture.

[K Gardner]

25. That clip is worth watching. More than troubling.

[bluesmail]

27. This is what they learned from their Watergate mistakes. n/t

[yardwork]

34. I love Conyers. Shout out to Representative Conyers!

I wish my representative was more like Conyers. Yeah, I'm talking about you, Representative Price.