20 Jun 2020 1:23 pm
You really need to investigate that you moron?Termin8tor » 20 Jun 2020, 12:20 pm » wrote: ↑I'm sure that's just your usual lies and smears and not worth investigating to respond.Misty » 20 Jun 2020, 9:54 am » wrote: ↑John Yoo?
The same John Yoo who wrote the torture memos?
The same John Yoo who said it was okay to crush the testicles of a baby boy in order to interrogate the father of the baby?
I should give a **** what John Yoo said, why?
It was talked about quite extensively at the time.
I'm sure you and I discussed it in our many arguments over the Bush administration's use of torture.
But you seem to have developed amnesia now.
On December 1, 2005, Yoo appeared in a debate in Chicago with Doug Cassel, a law professor from the University of Notre Dame. ... 'If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?' to which Yoo replied 'No treaty.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yo ... o%20treaty.'
The Berkeley Law professor is best known for his 2003 “Torture Memo,” written when he was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General. Yoo advised President George W. Bush that torture of enemy combatants held overseas was entirely permissible, and if not, then “necessity or self-defense could provide justifications for any criminal liability” that might attach to a soldier charged with doing bodily harm to a prisoner.
He might have added that unflinching embrace of Federalist Society dogma is a pretty good defense, too.
Because instead of being shunned from polite society, he is now blessing America with his views on impeachment.
We’ve all been breathlessly awaiting the opinion of a guy who thinks the president has the inherent authority to “torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child,” right?
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/john-yo ... -of-logic/