Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.
John Yoo and David Addington, the architects of Bush’s illegal torture policies, testified before the House Judiciary Committee today. The hearing included this frothy exchange between Yoo and the committee chairman, John Conyers (D-Mich.):
YOO: Uh, Mr. Chairman, I don’t think I’ve ever given advice that the President could order someone buried alive…
CONYERS: I didn’t ask you if you ever gave him advice. I asked if you thought the President could order a suspect buried alive.
YOO: Well Chairman, my view right now is that I don’t think a President — no American President would ever have to order that or feel it necessary to order that.
CONYERS: I think we understand the games that are being played.
Yoo was serving in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003, when he wrote the infamous memo and contributed to the PATRIOT ACT. He is now a professor of law at UC Berkeley.
Addington is the chief of staff to Dick Cheney.
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Yes we understand the games that are being played by BOTH sides.
The democrats are playing the same game, just a dog and pony show pretending like they are actually doing something.
This is just a charade they aren’t going to do a damn thing.
So Yoo is saying he feels no president would need to order a person buried alive, but if he did it would be OK.
When can we throw this piece of shit in jail?
I think it should be obvious to anybody who watched that hearing, or listened, that BOTH Addington and Yoo should be thrown at least in jail, if not off a cliff….
It was maybe THE most appalling thing I have ever witnessed.
Dont forget John Ashcroft who was the force behind this garbage and the other one who drafted the PATRIOT ACT and who is now teaching Constitutional law at Georgetown. They are both rewarded by Ashcroft to their current, elevated positions by a lack of understanding of the Constitution. You both are the kind of legal mind we need. Amen.
John (sick puppy) Yoo refuses to answer John Conyers in this very public hearing, but when asked an even more disturbing question many years ago by somebody named Doug Cassel, he gave a clearer answer. This is an actual transcript and audio:
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{Ed Note: Racist crap posted originally under someone else’s name. You’re pau, jerk. –99}
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As I am sure you can surmise from IP addresses that last response was clearly NOT from me.
No one has said it yet so…Fuck Yoo
John Yoo is a monster. The fact that this psychopath guided US policy for ONE SECOND is our eternal disgrace.
Anyone who watched the hearing has to come away at least as angry with Addington, if not more. Personally, I think the Yoos of this world are harmless without the Addingtons. Now that is a psychopath.
Wow, that reminds me of Ron Paul asking the Iraqi General (whoever was recently in charge) if Bush could order an attack on Iran.
After much hemming and hawing and avoiding answering the question, Ron Paul tells him “the answer is No. No, the president cannot order an attack on Iran without Congress declaring an act of war”.
JFC this is why education and history is so important. People don’t know wtf the constitution is, why its important, and how to speak truth to power —- and these people are top lawyers and generals running this country in many cases.
One of the few attorneys who actually understands the constitution and legal implications of messing with it is Russ Feingold. Too bad he’s in such a minority in congress.
John Yoo is an arrogant fucking asshole.
Why Conyers even kept talking to him I don’t know.
If I was Conyers, I would have had him forcefully removed, right then and there. Fuck all this games shit. People are dying from these fucking games.
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