Comments on: In Op-Ed Attacking IG Report, John Yoo Never Mentions That He Refused To Cooperate With The Investigation

By: blclem

blclem — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:09:48 +0000

You better hope that the Obama Admistration doesn’t start investigating and prosceuting the Bush Administration. This would start a precedent. Every time a new president is elected, the previous president could be investigated. Sounds like we are becoming a banana republic.

By: Powkat

Powkat — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:59:30 +0000

I hope this means he’s starting to sweat. He should never have another peaceful night – since the death and destruction he justified for his corporate masters doesn’t bother him, maybe concern for his own scalp will.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:43:06 +0000

The WSJ has always been a conservative, business-aligned, tight-a$$ed kind of newspaper and readers would know that from the start.
Since the entrance of Murdoch, however, the decline in the newspaper is obvious — it has become a vessel for the extreme right wing attacks; a haven for criminals like Yoo, and another outlet for Fox News, while masquerading as legitimate journalism for the unsuspecting.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:38:55 +0000

Yoo’s name is at the top of the list of those to be investigated. He will be lucky if he can avoid a prison term — likely, he will lose his license at least.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:37:46 +0000

28 Blood 1 says, “The most striking part that anyone who read the DOJ report was that his work was never reviewed by anyone at the DOJ.”

Having been a government employee, I can tell you that if you spit on the sidewalk, it has to pass through multiple levels of review.

That is just the way things are done (or perhaps SOP except when the WH wanted to hide something.)

By: pags2

pags2 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:22:59 +0000

I would like to see Yoo disbarred but it is murky if he directly violated any criminal statutes. The problem is that Yoo may end up being the only person in the higher levels of government to be prosecuted. That would be unacceptable.

By: winddancer

winddancer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:03:58 +0000

There are a few things I would like see happen to Yoo. The first is disbarment and being fired from his teaching position. The second is being prosecuted as a traitor since the opinions he provided (on cue) were used to overthrow the U.S. Constitution. The third is prosecution for war crimes (refer to United States v. Altstötter, the Nuremberg case brought against German Justice Department lawyers for the death camps but whose “memoranda” crafted the basis for implementation of a program called the “Night and Fog Decree,” which is not an unsimilar blend of what is suspected about the assassination group controlled by Cheney and reported by Seymour Hersh and now the recent CIA program revealed, as well as the black site secret prisons.)

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:56:22 +0000

It’s hard for me to tell which one of all the Bush enablers is the slimiest, but Yoo definitely ranks in the top 20.

By: winddancer

winddancer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:48:02 +0000

A Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:

Zimzone says:

“Speaking of Pat Tillman…he was vocally opposing the Iraq invasion. Do any of you believe Cheney’s death squad was involved?”

Benazir Bhutto

David Kelley (London)

By: blood1

blood1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:43:27 +0000

As I am not a lawyer, I cannot speak to the legalities of this Yoo memo. The most striking part that anyone who read the DOJ report was that his work was never reviewed by anyone at the DOJ.
Anytime you give someone a project and move it to a policy without review, it should be immediately suspect. That is like someone issuing research on a topic and disallowing anyone to review it…totally absurd in any field.
What this sounds like to the lay person is that BUSH, et al…wanted an analysis that would support whatever they wanted to do…and in that search, they found John Yoo. He demonstrated a willingness to write an opinion that would justify anything….as long as no one would challenge his premise. It has been shown repeatedly that each of his memos were questioned and they only reason they became the operational guidelines is because the WH group demanded that they were the “authority”.

The recent editorializing on Morning Joke was that a DOJ investigation into this would “viewed badly by other countries” and that President Obama wants the American People to focus on the economy and healthcare. NOTE: The American People are more that adept at focusing on more than one issue at a time…we are not like John McCain! So this is more BS by those who don’t want to assure that this history does not repeat itself!
So the WH found their first lackey and after seeing the other memo’s he wrote, even I found them twisting facts.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:19:04 +0000

A Patriotic Anopheles Acting says:
Zimzone, in the week before the assasination of Bhutto, Dick Cheney held several “advisary” phone calls with Pervez Musharraf.

I remember it well. He was also dancing with Israelis shortly before the Gaza invasion.

Who was he setting up when he was kissing the Saudi’s Kings ass?

By: pags2

pags2 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:17:16 +0000

Bilbo Hussein Baggins says:

pags2 says:
Yoo is going to be disbarred and will never be able to practice law again.

I wonder if that will affect his ability to teach. It blows my mind that a school as prestigious as Cal Berkeley hired this nit wit to teach law.

His ability to find a teaching job will be very limited since the respectable schools would not allow him to teach because of his involvement. Of course, there are some schools who don’t care but these schools are what we consider prestigious.

By: A Patriotic Anopheles Acting

A Patriotic Anopheles Acting — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:15:56 +0000

Zimzone, in the week before the assasination of Bhutto, Dick Cheney held several “advisary” phone calls with Pervez Musharraf.

By: Intrepid

Intrepid — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:15:38 +0000

sscncturn64 says:

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Zimzone #4, instead of giving yoo,bush,cheney, rumsfeld and the rest of these criminals cage time,how about six weeks of basic training a kevlar vest and an m-16 rifle. Then airdrop them into afghanistan.

Airdrop them without parachutes.

By: sscncturn64

sscncturn64 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:13:53 +0000

Zimzone, I was thinking with the vests it might prolong the inevitable. Give these bastards a little more time to experience what our service men and women went thru because of their lies. Its sickening knowing they sent these kids to war without the proper body armor.

By: A Patriotic Anopheles Acting

A Patriotic Anopheles Acting — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:12:59 +0000

Zimzone says:

“Speaking of Pat Tillman…he was vocally opposing the Iraq invasion. Do any of you believe Cheney’s death squad was involved?”

Benazir Bhutto

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:10:20 +0000

pags2 says:
Yoo is going to be disbarred and will never be able to practice law again.

I wonder if that will affect his ability to teach. It blows my mind that a school as prestigious as Cal Berkeley hired this nit wit to teach law. I asked my daughter, who is an attorney, if she would ever take a class from Yoo and her answer was “hell no, I want to learn the law not how to obstruct the law”.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:08:35 +0000

Speaking of Pat Tillman…he was vocally opposing the Iraq invasion. Do any of you believe Cheney’s death squad was involved?

How about other ‘mysterious’ deaths during that time period? Someone mentioned the Diebold guy. Others have brought up Sen. Wellstone.

Perhaps we should initiate a ‘death list’ of suspected Cheney / Addingont / Yoo targets.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:58:48 +0000

sscncturn64 says:
Zimzone #4, instead of giving yoo,bush,cheney, rumsfeld and the rest of these criminals cage time,how about six weeks of basic training a kevlar vest and an m-16 rifle. Then airdrop them into afghanistan.

Good idea, but forget the vests…remember, Rummy wanted to do ‘war on the cheap’, which didn’t include kevlar vests for many of our young soldiers.

I say drop ‘em in the same area they murdered Pat Tillman…

By: johnny dol1ar

johnny dol1ar — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:58:25 +0000

Yoo ought to find himself a COMPETENT attorney to remind him that sometimes the best defense is to keep the mouth shut.

What we all really want to know, Mr. Yoo, is WHO told you to go to such lengths to manufacture EXCUSES DEFENDING ILLEGAL ACTS?

You were “just following orders” Mr. Yoo?