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I have a new post up at the Campaign for America's Future about Guantánamo, John Yoo and the Bush administration. I've been kicking around this one for an embarrassingly long time, actually. But if dissecting the deceptive rhetoric used to sell monstrous villainy is your thing, it might be worth checking out.
Nitpicking, I know... but surely you meant John YOO rather than John WOO, right? Not that the director of "Hardboiled," wouldn't make a kickass "former government official."
Source: [b]berkeley daily planet[/b] Torture + silence = complicity, says the billboard above Round Table Pizza on University Avenue near Milvia Street, its orange background evocative of the Abu Ghraib prisoner jumpsuits. That billboard is not exactly what activists had envisioned. ...
The Washington Post offers up this very interesting story on the White House's initial insistence in 2003 that John Yoo would become the head of DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel....
The Bush administration's domestic spies broke the law because the President, with the aid of John Yoo, claimed he had the "inherent right" to do so, despite the fact that the original FISA law declared itself the "exclusive means" by which domestic surveillance could be conducted. Amazingly, just as a federal court says he was wrong , the Congress seeks to throw the plaintiffs who proved him wrong...
From the studios of Amygdala , as seen on Pharyngula and The Sideshow , it is America's new hit game show Stump the Yoo! You see, torture memo author John Yoo has had some trouble answering straightforward questions about presidential power. John Conyers of the House Judiciary Committee asked him "Is there anything, Professor Yoo, that the president could not order to be done to a suspect, if he believed...
Last week Rep. John Conyers tried to get a straight answer out of John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer who argued that the president had a legal right to order torture. The spectacle of Yoo equivocating over whether the president could have someone buried alive is something to behold. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries July 1, 2008 Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising July 1,...
In his congressional testimony last week, former Justice Department official and torture architect John Yoo sought to discredit torture critic Philippe Sands by suggesting that Sands had lied to a House subcommittee about interviewing him. In fact, Sands never made any such claim. Today, MoJo blog reports that Sands has written a letter to Yoo [...]
Last week, while testifying before Congress, torture fanatic John Yoo sought to discredit torture critic Philippe Sands by suggesting Sands had lied about interviewing him. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) used the allegation to claim it “would perhaps reflect on the veracity” of all of Sands’ allegations: YOO: I did read Mr. Sands’ testimony before this committee, [...]
