WTF?!?-Yoo Says 'He Never Met Bush or Cheney but Would Recommend They Torture People All Over Again'

[kpete]

Yoo Never Met Bush but Would Recommend He Torture People All Over Again
By Daphne Eviatar 12/29/09 3:57 PM

In a forthcoming Q & A to be published in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03fob-q4-t.html?hp
former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo tells Deborah Solomon that he never met President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney, but that he would advise them all over again that they could ignore legal prohibitions on torture if they wanted to.

Casting himself as a lowly functionary in the administration with less access to the president than an intern, Yoo — now a Berkeley professor who frequently faces protests from students who say he’s responsible for the Bush administration’s torture policies — says he was just following orders.

Of those torture papers, he says: “I had to write them. It was my job. As a lawyer, I had a client. The client needed a legal question answered.”

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So you’re saying you were just one notch above an intern, you and Monica Lewinsky?

She was much closer to the president than I ever was.

more:
http://washingtonindependent.com/72455/yoo-never-met-bush-but-would-recommend-he-torture-people-all-over-again

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03fob-q4-t.html?hp

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. His world view is being upheld. As if Nuremberg never happened.

[The Straight Story]

2. "I have a job to do, I am a hitman and had a client, therefore I am cleared"

:evilgrin:

[Echo In Light]

4. That sounds much closer to the truth of it

[madokie]

14. Remember when he was testifing before congress

and he seemed to not have any answers at all, couldn't really understand what the fuss was all about, well I now think that may not have been a front he was putting on, but the real john yoo. dumb as a broom. The good thing is stupid is not a defense. Once this all gets in the court system and he lives long enough he'll be one of the first ones to go. Something tells me that he could be a very damaging person for the bush/cheney cabal. My bet is he will take the wrong flight, road home or something but he'll turn up as many others in similar situations with the bfee have in the past.

[Political_Junkie]

3. "Says he was just following orders"

Nuremberg Principle IV - "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."

[Generator]

5. It was his job, he was just doing his job

He's the poster child for the banality of evil.

[Ikonoklast]

13. Somewhere in the pits of a fiery Hell

Adolf Eichmann is nodding in agreement.

All Eichmann did was keep the trains running on time.


To the death camps.

[timeforpeace]

6. No ambiguity there.

[notadmblnd]

7. he he were just a lowly serf, why were they paying him for legal advise?

He was thought of high enough for them to use his legal opinion as policy.

[jtrockville]

8. Has he been disbarred yet?

[rateyes]

9. Fuck Yoo. nt

[Soylent Brice]

10. it was my job. i had a client... blah blah blah. capitalofascism. a new blend of totalitarianism.

this guy is a real piece of fucking work.

[defendandprotect]

11. We should have a psychological test for appointees . . . and those hired

throughout government -- if you're not at least human, no job--

[MisterP]

12. mafia lawyer advises client to whack witnesses, admitting that it's against the law

mob lawyer arrested

mob lawyer screams that you can't try him for merely "giving advice" derived from a "creative interpretation" of the law, because that would be as bad as what he advised the mobster to do

mob lawyer hires professional morons to spam this message across internet boards

[Blue Owl]

15. a lowly functionary indeed

and a subhuman scumsucking douchebag to boot...