...for attorneys to approve torture and they found them in Yoo, Addington, et.al. after being turned down by attorneys with backbone.  Here's what Yoo's fellow attorneys and members of the Bush Administration said about Yoo's legal work on the torture memos:

"Bush’s Attorney General Michael Mukasey called it “slovenly.” Jack Goldsmith, another Republican who headed the Office of Legal Counsel from 2003 to 2004, said that Yoo’s August 2002 memo justifying torture by the CIA was “riddled with error” and a “one-sided effort to eliminate any hurdles posed by the torture law.”

Daniel Levin, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel after Goldsmith left and, like Yoo, was a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, described his reaction upon reading Yoo’s memo as “This is insane, who wrote this?” And Stephen Bradbury, who became acting head of the OLC after Levin’s departure, also under President Bush, and who wrote several memos authorizing torture himself, said of Yoo’s arguments about presidential power, “Somebody should have exercised some adult leadership” and deleted his arguments altogether. These are the assessments not of human rights advocates or left-wing critics but of Yoo’s Republican colleagues at the Justice Department."

John Yoo?!  Seriously, Timbow, John Yoo?!



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The question is not whether waterboarding and rectal intrusions are per se torture but whether the number and frequency of times these methods were applied qualify as statutory torture. One of the bad guys was waterboarded 170 plus times in a month- no one forced to face that specific question would say “no torture.”

         And whether Yoo recognized this on CNN where they always ask the clueless question –is waterboarding torture – which always allow the no torture “expert” to say we waterboard our own troops – Yoo did recognize the proper standard in his C-span interview and acknowledged that “too much” of these techniques would qualify as torture:

"Looking at it now, I think of course you can do these things cumulatively or too much that it would cross the line of the anti-torture statute," Yoo said on the C-SPAN television network

but goes straight to morality.

Yep! All those flag JAG's must be lefties! ;)

Along with McCain!  

"'Every flag JAG lodged complaints," said one senior Pentagon official involved in the process, referring to the judge advocate generals who are military lawyers of each service.'"