Truthdig: Torture’s Poet Laureate

[marmar]

Torture’s Poet Laureate

Posted on Apr 2, 2008

John “Take Them to the Point of Death” Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor and once deputy legal counsel in the Justice Department, has again become the center attention in the torture debate. A 2003 memo authored by this legal poet laureate of torture was declassified and released to the public Tuesday.

In it Yoo asserts immunity for military interrogators from federal laws prohibiting “assault, maiming, and other crimes.” This legal stance, which more or less permits all forms of torture against alleged terrorists save those leading to the comically redundant list of “death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions,” was also argued by Yoo in 2002 to apply to CIA interrogators.

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post have posted articles about the memo, with the Post providing a link to the actual declassified document: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080402_tortures_poet_laureate/

[malaise]

1. You know my DUzy phrase

Fuck YOO!! :rofl:

[marmar]

2. Too good, Malaise....

But be careful the next time you go through Customs/Immigration at the airport....You might be making an unscheduled stop in Cuba. :)

[malaise]

3. LOL

:rofl: