In our system of justice an expression of regret is the difference between getting life without parole and hanging by the neck until dead. (Although I feel the latter option only makes us as bad as the criminals)

If found guilty, Mr. Bybee will need to express that regret to the court, in person. At that point I’m fine with him spending the rest of his life in prison.

Even without the signature, Bybee OWNS this memo. Whether he directed it or drafted it, it is his will, his document, his deed. He assisted the Bush Administration’s desire to torture and punish and break the prisoners. They were engaged in “fixing the intelligence”. Torturing people until they supply false confessions and the false information desired is always shown to be wrong. There are centuries of evidence proving that torture does not yield the truth. So why do it? Because you are sadistic and immoral and inhuman.

And this beast is set up to judge others???

Impeach, disbar, and prosecute!

Jay Bybee should resign from the federal bench (a seat which he was clearly unfit to hold) and prepare to surrender himself to the Attorney General for arrest. It would be the responsible thing to do.

Looking at the point: He was under pressure – he had a choice to make and choose the wrong one – which resulted in a life appointment as a payoff. He could just as easily have said NO and resigned but he did not. Somehow that does not enhance his position as a Federal Judge…if he can be pressured into one decision, how can anyone believe that he won’t behave that way again….how can we trust someone who twisted words and used hyperbole to get around the serious issue of defining torture.
He used the same departments “experts” who told him that these techniques were torture to be the experts on that these same techniques would not cause overt pain that would be on the order equivalent to torture…as they had 40 years of experience in SERE Training and who were also “paid off” as miracle of miracle, after the enhanced interrogation / torture program was approved they resigned, started their own company and the gov’t then hired as consultants for overseeing the exhanced (torture) interrogation program.

Sorry, this balloon has just been popped and Bybee has no moral authority to judge others.

Having someone “close” say that you are sorry…don’t we hear that everyday after someone is found guilty of a major crime? Are we sympathetic? Do we forgive the criminal?

Please.. Not buying the beans. Now, Bybee regrets the torture memos? If Bybee regrets his role in approving torture, then:

1. Why did he only release 3 OLC memos while he worked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the time of his hearing with the Senate for judgeship nomination?

2. Why did he refuse to answer certain questions according to Sen. Feingold at the Senate hearing back in 2003? [By the way, Feingold opposed Bybee's nomination. Leahy voted yes for Bybee's nomination. The Senate vote was 79-14.]

Sorry, but it is hard to believe that Bybee can sit on the bench as judge and make decisions on cases on according to the law when he, himself, broke the law as the former DOJ employee in the Office of Legal Counsel division.

It’s not like it was real torture. I mean they were from other country’s and not real human beings. And after all he wasn’t the one doing it. And if he did not have to look at it, then he really had nothing to do with it. Out of sight out of mind. And besides that, if these people were not doing something wrong, they would not have been caught. And further more if they had stayed home and away from trouble they would not be questioned.

And evidently this was post, I am in trouble regret. Not the kind of pre-regret that allows reflection and the humane response that says NO I WON’T CONDONE SUCH A THING. And like the rest of the lawyers that wrote those justifications, he said nothing. Just sign here, on the dotted line Jay.

And like the others, if this monument of moral rectitude has any friends, they must be clinically and morally as moribund as he is.

The Nazi’s expressed their regret too. Just before they were executed for war crimes.

It’s amazing… the more time that goes by and the more information that is revealed, the easier it is to draw comparisons to Nazis. Real, geniune, valid comparisons.

Who would have ever thought that a simple blowjob and a stain on a blue dress would lead my country down such a path? If we don’t force our government to hold these criminals to account, we are nothing better than Nazi sympathizers.

PEACE