How the Presidency Regained Its Balance (or time to approve torture)

[ProSense]

Congress has for years been avoiding its duty to revamp or repeal outmoded parts of bygone laws in the light of contemporary threats. We have needed energy in the executive branch to fill in that gap. Congress now must act to guide our counterterror policy, but it should not try to micromanage the executive branch, particularly in war, where flexibility of action is paramount.

John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general from 2001 to 2003, is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and the author of “War by Other Means.”

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[Phredicles]

1. I'd pay money to see John Yoo waterboarded.

Just sayin'.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Any person who attempts to diminish, degrade, revise, damage our

Constitution, Bill of Rights, statutes, or treaties is a traitor.

Changing the law for their purposes is an admission of their inability to think, strive, and work for peace.

The changes they want are to facilitate profit, control, and selective population and religion control.

They need to be prosecuted.

[Theodora]

3. Torture

I never thought I would see our President, who claims to be a
practicing Christian, go to Congress to plead for torture!

[newyawker99]

4. Hi Theodora!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: