Shorter John Yoo:
We were racing from cops in the white Bronco so that we could find the real killers find the real torturers because that’s what innocent people do!
Slightly longer explanation:
A Bush administration attorney who approved harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects advocated in 2006 that President Bush set aside recommendations by his own Justice Department to bring prosecutions for such practices, that the President should consider pardoning anyone convicted of such offenses, and even that jurors hearing criminal cases about such matters engage in jury nullification.
That advice came from John Yoo, a former attorney with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and author of memos that served as a legal rationale for the Bush administration’s interrogation techniques. Yoo’s recommendations constitute one of the most compelling pieces of a body of evidence that Yoo and other government attorneys improperly skewed legal advice to allow such practices, according to sources familiar with a still-confidential Justice Department report.
Impeach Jay Bybee. Arrest him and Yoo too.
Fuck em. Sociopaths.
May 6, 2009 at 11:52 am
I’m not sure producing imitation Brad DeLong posts is where the comparative advantage of the Poorman lies….
May 6, 2009 at 11:57 am
It was an homage…
May 6, 2009 at 11:58 am
Yoo is hiding out in my county teaching law at Chapman University. I guess he couldn’t handle the daily protests up in Berkeley.
May 6, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Any fucking lawyer will write that which makes you look legal.
May 6, 2009 at 6:23 pm
“Arrest Him Now”?
Look, I agree “Broken Arrow” was kinda sucky, but torture? And it was 13 years ago! Isn’t it time to let bygones etc. etc.
May 7, 2009 at 7:40 am
I’ll always have a soft spot for Killers and Hard Boiled.
May 7, 2009 at 9:38 am
You mean The Killer? His best, for sure.
May 7, 2009 at 11:07 am
I mean both!
May 7, 2009 at 9:22 am
…and the opening sequence of Face/Off was sublime.
May 7, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I’m trying to figure out how to segue that into “Slap Shot”, but I guess I ain’t smart enough. Da-yum!
May 7, 2009 at 2:04 pm
-A The bushco nonsense laws have not been repealed or even reviewed. During the period while congress needs to be reminded that it would be a great idea to revise and reverse every single law passed during bushco, I believe the congress criminals need to be reminded that it would be a swift idea to start to clean out the shithole that the United States is rapid becoming.
-B Gitmo is still there. I believe that grabbing some knowledgeable underling like the Harriet Mier’s (disgrace to humanity and common sense), sending her to Gitmo, transferring all of the underlings punished for Abu Grabi to Gitmo and introducing them to Miers as her new torturers will produce more than enough hard evidence to send at least the top three echelons of Bushco to prison for life.
Oh well, delusional activity is one of the minor mental problems that I have.
May 7, 2009 at 2:10 pm
-A The bushco nonsense laws have not been repealed or even reviewed. During the period while congress needs to be reminded that it would be a great idea to revise and reverse every single law passed during bushco, I believe the congress criminals need to be reminded that it would be a swift idea to start to clean out the shithole that the United States is rapid becoming.
-B Gitmo is still there. I believe that grabbing some knowledgeable underling like the Harriet Mier (disgrace to humanity and common sense), sending her to Gitmo, transferring all of the underlings punished for Abu Grabi to Gitmo and introducing them to Miers as her new torturers will produce more than enough hard evidence to send at least the top three echelons of Bushco to prison for life.
No torture necessary. No laws broken during prosecution. A little investigation of the Supreme Court’s Catholic Fives knowledge or complicity in Bushco would produce a much more humane court instantly. No pain (well maybe Karl Rove’s NBFF will not be so gentle but…………
Oh well, delusional activity is one of the minor mental problems that I have.
May 7, 2009 at 7:22 pm
self exile -
B is a pretty interesting idea. Nicely done.
May 10, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Far from being arrested, John Yoo is currently enjoying a large bully pulpit courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
I’m so sick about it that I cna’t even bring myself to read his latest column. I wrote in protest, but they ignored it. I guess I’ll just keep writing.
July 16, 2009 at 6:52 pm
John Yoo was obviously used by Bush, Cheney & Co. He should shut up instead of trying to defend himself and his memos. I cannot wait for the Spanish Judge to get his ass soon!