YOO: Habeas Corpus IS TOO COSTLY - IT IS NOT FREE

[kpete]

Interviews
Yoo Defends Detainee Measures as 'Rules of War'
by Steve Inskeep

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Inskeep: You said "always a chance." Isn't it a certainty, especially given that some cases have already been found to be, almost indisputably, cases of people who were innocent, being held at Guantanamo for a long time and held elsewhere?

Yoo: I would say yes, in wartime, there's always people who are going to be picked up...

Inskeep: Do you, as a lawyer, who's worked for the Bush Administration and obviously thought about these issues, think that this law does everything possible to prevent error?

Yoo: I think we could probably do a lot more, but it'd be a lot more expensive. I think what we have here is something close to the civilian sytem.

Inskeep: Are you saying it would be too expensive to give habeas corpus protection to non-citizens?

Yoo: Yeah, I think that's what Congress decided when they passed this law last week is that, you could have the possibility of hundreds and hundreds of habeas corpus proceedings, and they do impose a cost. They impose a cost on our judicial system, they impose a cost on our government and our military. Think about it, you'd have to pull witnesses in from abroad. You have the cost of potentially releasing classified information. All of this process does have a cost on our system, it's not free.

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Listen to interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6190108

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/4/134126/935

[bigbrother05]

1. If i understand this correctly

Yoo, is saying, it would busy up the courts.

[notadmblnd]

2. Now where did his folks immigrate from?

seems to me, he'd be much more comfortable with the laws in his ancestor's country of origin. No?

[pauldp]

3. I guess that's what they mean when they say "freedom isn't free?"

In fact freedom is just way too expensive so let's scrap it.

[LeftCoast]

4. I want to know why John Yoo hates America, and I'm serious!

Habeas corpus goes to the heart of what "freedom" means.

[enlightenment]

5. So, liberty and justice FOR ALL

is too F-ing expensive.

Wow. Just wow.

[kpete]

9. thats what I thought when I read it...

Sad, very sad...

[AX10]

6. It's the Neo-Con way!

:puke:

[David__77]

7. Yoo is a nazi.

He supports torturing children and raping them.

[Patsy Stone]

8. I think I hate him the most of all of them...

but with so many to choose from, it changes daily. Blecccch.

[hootinholler]

10. kicking for more recs n/t