Comments on: Yoo refuses to testify about torture memos.

By: vbeast

vbeast — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:25:13 +0000

It’s naive to pretend we only started torturing recently. We’ve tortured since the founding of the CIA. To pretend that this is a new development is the true dishonor to all the victims of clandestine US operations.

However, I do not only blame the U.S. Britain, France and most of the anglo nations share in the benefits of US intervention and also deserve a measure of disgust.

By: Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:32:40 +0000

dude..the guy has stated he beleives the president has the right to sexually torture children….if you believed something like that, would you want to risk going into a public forum where the question could potentially be asked..

By: Robt

Robt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:59:48 +0000

How is this DICTATORSHIP working out for you?

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:51:55 +0000

Executive Privilege and Pardons don’t mean SHIIIT at the Hague.

By: martskers

martskers — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:01:25 +0000

I suggest internment for Mr. Yoo. Guantanamo maybe?

By: dasm

dasm — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:18:30 +0000

“refuses to testify” — somehow most of us– the ordinary people– cannot understand how Bushies continually refuse to testify. How can they do this? None of us can. Let’s all refuse to testify, ever again, and use Bush & Co. as precedents. What a bunch of lowlifes & liars Bush et al prove themselves to be on a daily basis. Again– how can these people continue to REFUSE to testify? How can this be legal? Get a Bush job & thumb your nose forever at the law? Is that the rule now? Someone step in and show these criminals that they, like the rest of us, must answer for their law-breaking. Bushies = elite. The rest of us = law-abiders.

By: pseverinc

pseverinc — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:16:36 +0000

How can one part of the government claim it can’t disclose “internal discussions” with another part of the government? Is there more than one government they work for and are paid by.

I mean, what exactly did they think when they advocate a “unitary government.”

By: GeeDubs

GeeDubs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:18:24 +0000

A backhand across the face…

By: Namtillaku

Namtillaku — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:10 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen, Students – your constitutional law professor. Give him a hand, won’t you?

By: theswan

theswan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:00:00 +0000

Oh, that’s nice. “paving the way to a POSSIBLE subpoena”.
And then what??? Criminal privilege?? And then what?? A spineless response? And then what?? Constitutional collapse?? And then what?? Everyone goes home crying??
Obviously Congress is digging a hole that they FEAR they will not get out of. Chickenhawks, all.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:53:50 +0000

Freeze him on a concrete slab while playing heavy metal full bore and then waterboard the bastard!

By: GeeDubs

GeeDubs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:46:27 +0000

Executive Privilege should not and CANNOT be allowed to be used to secretly come up with bullshit torture rationalizations and then have them all just slink away. We already went through this crap with Nixon’s ‘if the President does it, it isn’t illegal,’ melarky 35 years ago. Don’t WE own all of them? Either that, or ‘For the People, By the People’ is just empty rhetoric.

By: zathrus

zathrus — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:42:47 +0000

Yoo did his work for the DOJ, and that is part of the Executive branch, and therefore they can dictate whether or not he testifies before congress… HOWEVER… The executive branch works for US, and I for one hereby grant Mr. Yoo permission to testify before congress regarding his role in any decision making regarding torture.

By: GeeDubs

GeeDubs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:42:13 +0000

Chuck Schumer will NEVER get my vote again because of that vile Mulkasey endorsement. Let’s get a real liberal into that Senate seat the next time he’s up for re-election. Thanx for NOTHING, Chuck!

By: Exit Stage Left

Exit Stage Left — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:39:55 +0000

Chuck (Grandpa Munster) Schumer is a disgrace to the Democratic Party. He should follow “hubby’s getting richer from Iraq occupation” Feinstein and retire after his current term.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:38:02 +0000

I know… Democrats in Congress have been a great disapointment… and yesterday Clinton won in Pensylvaia…

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:36:14 +0000

GeeDubs says correctly:

These ‘deliberations’ were done in the name of the American people, and we demand accountability!

I add that it was made in the name of western civilizacion… remember their argument about “Saddam wanting to destroy our freedom”, “they hate our freedom!”

WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY!!!!

By: GeeDubs

GeeDubs — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:34:24 +0000

Saco – who is going to issue this subpeona? Although I’m a Democrat, I am so fed up with them as well because they’re all such pussies. The only one that MIGHT be able to get to the bottom of it would be Wexler, and he has a lot of stuff on his plate.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:32:56 +0000

SUBPOENA THE WAR CRIMINAL!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:30:09 +0000

5th Estate Says:

Wayne..
please don’t bang your head against the keyboard. I know it feels good but if it breaks, how WILL you comment thereafter?

Hmmmm, Maybe thats why my spacebar doesn’t work sometimes.