Mega-dump on John (let's spy and torture) Yoo in the NYTimes ... [View All]

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2003343&mesg_id=2003343

And, here's a bit more ...

Mr. Yoo's January 2002 conclusions that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan and that the conventions' minimum standards did not cover terrorists touched off long, hard-fought battle within the administration, in which lawyers for the State Department and the military services strongly disputed his views. Thereafter, several senior officials said, those lawyers were sometimes excluded from the drafting of more delicate opinions.

For example, they said, Mr. Yoo's much-criticized 2002 memorandum with Mr. Bybee on interrogations - which said that United States law prohibited only methods that would cause "lasting psychological harm" or pain "akin to that which accompanies serious physical injury such as death or organ failure" - was not shared with either the State Department or military lawyers, despite its implications for their agencies.

"They were not getting enough critical feedback from within O.L.C., or from within the Justice Department, or from other agencies," one former official said of Mr. Yoo's opinions. Officials said senior aides to Attorney General Ashcroft also complained that they were not adequately informed about some of the Mr. Yoo's frequent discussions with the White House.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/politics/23yoo.html?ei=5094&en=fe2abc236496a01f&hp=&ex=1135314000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

And, if you read the article, you'll witness Yoo's blinding-hubris. Someone needs to tell the guy to get a lawyer -- a really, really good criminal lawyer.

Get a clue John, they just emptied another one, on yoo ...


Peace.