Comments on: John Yoo’s Defense of Himself Is as Persuasive as Most of His Legal Opinions

By: rwaldmann

rwaldmann — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:55:24 +0000

The claim “The Bush administration’s response wasn’t to get Congress to change FISA; ” is inaccurate. The Bush administration did get Congress to change FISA with the Patriot act, which definitely tore down the FISA wall. There was extensive discussion of exactly how much restrictions on surveillance should be relaxed. Bush said that he was wholly satisfied with the Patriot act which gave him the tools he needed.

At the same time he was violating FISA and violating FISA as relaxed by the Patriot act. Not only were these felonies committed in secret, but a whole long legislative charade was used to hide the fact that the President had decided that he was not subject to the law.

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TheTradingReport » Blog Archive » links for 2009-07-18 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:34:40 +0000

[...] Spencer Ackerman’s Sober, Measured Take on John Yoo [...]

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links for 2009-07-18 | Bailout and Financial Crisis News — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:40:27 +0000

[...] Spencer Ackerman’s Sober, Measured Take on John Yoo [...]

By: Swami_Binkinanda

Swami_Binkinanda — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:40:09 +0000

They never show the blood on his hands. Luckily you can't photograph obsequy, cravenness, or perversity.

By: alchemytoday

alchemytoday — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:25:07 +0000

It was so clearly absurd to restrict the President's wartime authority in any way that Yoo was called in to make an end-around about every other person in Justice. Obviously absurd.

By: John Yoo Offers Poor Justification For Warrantless Wiretaps - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:32:55 +0000

[...] lie. This is shown to at least be true in the case of Yoo’s op-ed by The Annonymous Liberal, Spencer Ackerman, Think Progress, and Steve [...]

By: strangely_enough

strangely_enough — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Ooh, hypotheticals! Suppose an administration wanted to cook up a justification for attacking a resource rich country by linking it to terrorist organizations but the facts, er, detainees just weren't cooperating?

This line doesn't quite pass the laugh test: “even in The Wall Street Journal people can recognize absurdity.” Ummm… This is the WSJ Op Ed page, a veritable theatre of the absurd.

By: Some friendly legal advice from “the White House’s guy” « The Moderate

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:04:50 +0000

[...] also of the Washington Independent takes down Yoo’s defense in a much better and concise way than I do here. It’s certainly worth a [...]

By: johnhkennedy

johnhkennedy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:23:50 +0000

This is just John Yoo trying to change the subject
from one on which he will surely cause him to be disbarred or imprisoned, his involvement in the Bush-Cheney Conspiracy to render our Federal Anti-Torture Laws moot.

The fact that he is still trying to explain away the warrantless wiretaps just shows how consistent he is in his warped thinking.

To move on, American need a full accounting of the crimes of the Bush-Cheney criminals in a congressional commission of inquiry and prosecutions in a Federal Court. To that end

SIGN THE PETITION
calling for
a congressional commission of inquiry
and prosecution for Bush's Torturers
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

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