John Yoo

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May 18, 2009, 5:17PM

I'm cancelling my subscription to the Philadelphia Inquirer because they popped a scoop of John Yoo atop a smelly sundae of Rick Santorum and Charles Craphammer. Craphammer has been most strident in repositioning everything he's said as a tougher and smarter version of it. Santorum is lokoing for his Q, something he could use to get pop star attention from like-thinking assholes. But those are just wanna-be influencers, politicians.

ohn Yoo is an apologist lawyer for the W crew. Them's the ones what just sucked the world into depression. But John Yoo is among the distinguished few Americans who can't travel abroad because he'll be whisked away to the Hague to stand for trial on war crimes charges. Allowing him to practice law is an affront to the concept of law.

This enabler was essential to the NeoCon heresies against our beloved Constitution.

I'll wait until 5/22, but the decision has been made. Either he goes or I stop reading newspapers. Yes, the Philadelphia Inquirer may be ruining another slice of demographic for the print industry with this felon.

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Excellent decision!

John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles. This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.
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Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

Posted by astral66
May 18, 2009 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink

Craphammer. I hereby award you the Dayly Sobriquet of the Day Award for this here TPMCafe site, given to all of you from all of me. ha

Great piece. Like Astral says: Excellent Decision.

Posted by dickday
May 18, 2009 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink

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