Advocate for arbitrary torture attempts to engage in rational discourse, fails: What I want to note is that John Yoo knows that he is already on trial – not just in Spain, but here in the United States – and he is already attempting to put on his defense. And if his performance at Chapman […]
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Discussing the recent whining of Alberto Gonzales who, like Jay Bybee, wants it known that he’s one of the real victims of the arbitrary torture regime he helped conceive of and implement, Dahli
Apparently having run out of human beings, the Philadelphia Inquirer has given a column to John Yoo. And, if you’re a glass-one-twelfth-full kind of person, you could acknowledge that itR
I suppose this is all a dog-bites-man story…
Shorter John Yoo: Executive branch actions that could have been easily performed under FISA prove that is was fine for the executive branch to systematically violate FISA at their pleasure. This is ba
So, to be clear, Boalt Hall’s favorite tenured radical used procedural, legal, and factual errors…to justify torture and arbitrary executive power. (Often, for example, legislative provisi
When I see that Sonia Sotomayor’s competence is being questioned by John Yoo — you know, the guy who constructed a farcical argument that a Constitution that gave Congress numerous specific powers over warmaking was actually intended to replicate monarchical executive power? And did so to justify an arbitrary torture regime? — I…what else can […]
One possible response.
Many people have already noted a key takeaway from Scott Shane’s article on the CIA’s arbitrary torture regime: it didn’t work. A couple things about it are also worth noting. First
As Steve says, it’s a mixed news day; it’s good that Obama is releasing the torture memos, bad that CIA operatives who carried out torture won’t be prosecuted. Admittedly, the existence of the memos does make prosecuting lower-level people a difficult proposition, and I could live with it…as soon as Yoo, Bradbury et al. are […]
I have a piece about the newly released memos over at Comment is Free. Meanwhile, it’s pretty amusing to see a guy responsible for what might be the least plausible “originalist” arg
The more that’s known about Yoo, Bybee and the Bush administration’s arbitrary torture regime, the better.