Former Bush Administration Lawyer Still Flacking for Torture...

[bridgit]

'Bush needs to torture people, Yoo believes, not to extract intelligence but to "reinvigorate the presidency." It takes a subtle legal mind to understand what water-boarding or sleep-deprivation has to do with Bush's other power grabs -- not just claiming the right to imprison without bringing formal charges or to engage in warrantless wiretaps, but to reclassify government documents made public by previous administrations, refuse to tell Americans what advice Enron and the oil industry gave to his energy task force, and issue hundreds of signing statements that empowered him with the right not to enforce laws that have absolutely nothing to do with national security. But professor Yoo sees the bigger picture. They are all moves in a larger fight to restore balance to the three branches of government, to roll back the "supremacy" assumed by the Congress and the judiciary in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate.' http://www.alternet.org/rights/41817

[acmejack]

1. John Yoo is a disgrace to his profession.

In fact his a disgrace to America.

[grizmaster]

2. And the War Criminals Protection Act would let Yoo off the hook

for his part in the bush junta war crimes

[Jacobin]

4. Nice catch

:thumbsup:

[annabanana]

3. "reinvigorate the presidency"

I guess we know what give Yoo a woodie.