Bush torture ‘architect’ sits on court that will rule on another torture ‘architect'
Yoo's lawyers have filed an appeal against a lawsuit by convicted terrorist supporter Jose Padilla to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the judges on that bench is Jay Bybee, who served early on in the Bush administration in the same Office of Legal Counsel where Yoo wrote the torture memos.
Bybee is known for having written the "Bybee memo," which spelled out the definition of "enhanced interrogation techniques" the Bush administration used against terrorism suspects, now abandoned by the Obama Justice Department. Yoo wrote a number of controversial memos regarding torture, including one that declared "enhanced interrogation" only met the legal definition of torture if it caused pain equal to "organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death."
Both Bybee and Yoo are defendants in a Spanish prosecution of the principal creators of the Bush administration's torture policies.
In their appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court, Yoo's lawyers declared that a lawsuit against him by convicted terrorist supporter Jose Padilla could "open the floodgates to politically motivated lawsuits" against government officials, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
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- SleepDirt
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lol.. wow... a corrupted official decides on a corruption case... nice!!
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politics is the art of dealing with conflicts of interest,..not avoiding them....nothing new here.....
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When are we going to see Cheney be thrown in jail for torture.
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- LadybugLady
- 8 days ago
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Why oh why can't we arrest tony blair and george bush (obviously this will never happen) but oh i would be so happy to see them (and hundreds others) put on trial for war crimes like we did with hitler/slobadan milosovic etc and see them put in jail for life.
That would be one truly happy justified day for humanity! -
John Yoo, I can honestly say I hate more than almost any living being on earth.
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holding your nose and letting this play out may be the only solution. even though this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black,it none the less needs to continue. anyone whom has ever been at the "mercy" of the court know that justice has left eh building
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The words "conflict of interest," as masterzip pointed out, no longer mean anything in this country.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is openly encouraged to have them, but it certainly feels like it most of the time.
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John Yoo and Jay Bybee along with the rest of the so-called Bush Six (the other toads from the Bush OLC) are being investigated and possibly tried in absentia by Judge Baltatzar Garzon in Spain with respect to their role in the torture of some Spanish nationals.
If found guilty they would be unable to participate in international travel at risk of arrest by countries that share extradition treaties with Spain and would remain fugitives from justice, possibly for the rest of their lives. Ironically, it's remotely possible they could even face rendition at some future time.The same judge has more recently announced war crimes investigations against George Bush, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama.
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Nobody expects the Spanish Prosecution!!!!!!
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- EdJoyProductions
- 8 days ago
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May he fall into his own trap .
