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After Tamara’s lunch with property guru, Starck-partner and Caprice-dater John Hitchcox a few weeks back, the busiest man in property development agreed to have a chat with us about what his company, Yoo, is up to, what it’s like working with Philippe, and where he hangs out in New York – when he’s not building [...] ... Source: inthenews.berkeleylawblogs.org --- 14 days ago
The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 10, by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/26482104.html Slowly but surely, the justices have expanded their power to make many of our society’s fundamental political and moral decisions…. This is not to deny that there are moments that we need the courts to defend individual liberties against unconstitutional actions by the government. But those moments may [...] ... Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 40 days ago
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What's with the shocked headlines? Roiling stockmarketS a surprise? Come on! While Republicans eviscerated government and looted the treasury we heard about it -- in detail -- from Kevin Phillips (Bad Money, American Dynasty) and Robert A.G. Monks (Corpocracy), Robert Kuttner (Everything for Sale) and Frank Partnoy (F.I.A.S.C.O.), John Dean (Broken Government) and Susan Faludi (The Terror Dream), and from many, many others ... regularly ... over the last forty years. We didn't want to know? It was easier, more comfortable, not to. OK, semi-plausible deniability: the media let us down too; but they were just "telling (selling) us what we wanted to hear." Despite the rhetoric, we have not been abandoned by causality. Let's stop being so nice about all this. The Republican Party is rotten from and to the core -- top to bottom bad apples (Jack Abramoff, Michael "Brownie" Brown, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Duke Cunningham, Ralph Reed, Sarah Palin, Charles Keating, Dick Cheney, Bob Ney, Howard Phillips, Anne Gorsuch, Paul Wolfowitz, Rudy Giuliani, Monica Gooding, George Bush, George the Lesser, Phil Gramm, John Yoo, Joe McCarthy, Pat Buchanan, Tom DeLay, Spiro Agnew, Pat Robertson, The Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Ann Coulter, the deceit, the deficit, the disappointments, the depressions, the disasters, et cetera, et al, ad ...
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John AshcroftThe Washington Post reports today: Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Le ... Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 10 days ago
Christopher is correct on universal jurisdiction . Moreover, we're beyond the point of speculation on this--one case is already underway. In Milan, a trial is now pending in which 26 American intelligence officers, diplomats and one military attaché are charged with kidnapping and assault in connection with the extraordinary renditions program. They are being tried in absentia and the U.S. refused to extradict them. Christopher notes Judge Garzon, and I have interviewed another investigating magistrate who advised me that the process of collecting information to proceed with a case against Bush Administration officials is underway, though there has been no decision to actually bring charges and it was not conceivable that such a decision would occur before the Bush team leaves Washington. As he put it "those currently serving the U.S. government have the protection of political considerations; but with respect to the officials of a former regime--they are fair game." That was in a country which supports the U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and has sent its troops to fight in both, by the way. So whatever happens in the United States, it is likely that there will be some sort of enforcement overseas, and that people like David Addington and John Yoo will have to be extremely careful about any trans-Atlantic vacation plans. ... Source: emptywheel.firedoglake.com --- 59 days ago
John Yoo claims the Supreme Court has never before protected the Constitution. ... Source: www.dailykos.com --- 18 days ago
In the heat of the election campaign, economic fallout, and energy proposals, other essential issues often don't get the attention they deserve. That's the case with a hearing coming up Thursday at the Senate Armed Services Committee . The hearing is "Part II of the Committee's inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody." Or, to cut to the chase, torture. Long-time Kossack Valtin , who also blogs as Invictus at his own site and has been following U.S. use of torture in the "global war on terror" for several years, has written a Diary on the subject here . Everybody who cares to know is well aware that the U.S. tortured detainees at Guantánamo and at its secret prisons elsewhere. Officials may well have "reverse-engineered" the Pentagon's SERE program to try to break prisoners. SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, a program for training Americans in all branches of the military how to withstand torture. At this stage, what's at issue isn't so much the torture itself, as Valtin points out, but rather the time-line. Were torture techniques used before or only after John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales wrote memos to provide legal cover for the Cheney-Bush administration? Why does this matter? Because if DoD, and by implication Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Rice, or whomever, were seeking guidance on torture before even their poorly-written and largely derided cover-your-ass memos were written, supposedly allowing to ... Source: itgreenby.clickblog.com.br --- 27 days ago
UPDATE Woman found in river identified. And Saturday and Sunday, to p. And why do we need a PATRIOT Act if he has all these powers If the if anyone reads the Article the way Bush does, Cheney, his former counsel, David Addington, and John Yoo do, there are just no powers [...] ... Source: grievanceproject.wordpress.com --- 54 days ago
Professor John C. Yoo U.S. District Court Judge jyoo@law.berkeley.edu Dear Professor Yoo: I previously sent this e-mail back in April of this year, but, unfortunately, left out the ‘j’ so I sent it to y-o-o @ law.berkeley.edu. I noticed this error today after reading your op-ed, Supreme Court grabbed more power in recent term, in The Philadelphia Enquirer, [...] ... Source: pimpinturtle.com --- 26 days ago
PROGRAM WILL RETURN SUNDAY, 9 A.M. EST. SEE EMBEDDED VIDEO BELOW. Saturday morning, the dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a two day planning session with a single focus: To arrest, put to trial and carry out sentence on criminals in the Bush Administration. The conference, arranged by Lawrence Vevel, cofounder of the Andover school, will focus on which of Bush's officials and members of Congress could be charged with war crimes. The plan also calls for "necessary organizational structures" to be established, with the purpose of pursuing the guilty "to the ends of the Earth." "For Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Yoo to spend years in jail or go to the gallows for their crimes would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders," Velvel said in a media advisory. In a published document entitled "The Long Term View" (PDF link), Vevel argues, at the very least, "there is no question" George W. Bush is guilty of conspiracy to commit torture , a war crime. "He is a former drunk, was a serial failure in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know the meaning of truth," said Vevel. The conference will focus ... Source: mythicalblog.com --- 12 days ago
My policy on torture is the same as my policy on rape: no . I’m disgusted that the USA had a different policy. It is my country of origin and residence, which I love in an old fashioned patriotic sort of way. I have high hopes for her, and also high expectations. I’m elated that both of candidates with any real chance of winning the presidential election share my point of view on torture . Obama: “… we’ll reject torture-without exception or equivocation.” McCain: “We do not torture people. It’s not about the terrorists, it’s about us. It’s about what kind of country we are.” I’m still a bit disgusted that the issue of a torture policy is even something we’re debating. That just shows that we, as a people, are divided on the topic. There are those of us for it. There’s a pro-torture group. The future president and his opponent reject the points of the pro-torture argument. They challenge the pro-torture recruitment pamphlet’s bullet-points. Mostly that amounts to declaring Jack Bauer is a fictional character, and insisting the TV show 24 is not only unreal, but also unrealistic . John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who produced the so-called torture memos—simultaneously redefining both the laws of torture and logic—cites Bauer in his book War by Other Means . “What if, as the popular Fox television program ‘24′ recently portrayed, a high-level terrorist leader is caught who knows the location of a nuclear weapon?” The candid ... Source: www.themediaconsortium.com --- 92 days ago
Last week’s House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, which featured special guests John Yoo and David Addington, drew a lot of attention for its rhetorical bombshells (Chairman Conyers: Could the president order a suspect buried alive?) and the tense back and forth between the witnesses and Democrats on the bench. But Addington and Yoo are both long-time [...] ... Source: dailydoubt.blogspot.com --- 101 days ago
Think Progress has the details . I really hope that one day justice (the sort of justice that Yoo has worked so hard at denying others) catches up with this despicable human being , and that he one day finds himself having to explain all his lies and obfuscations in a war crimes trial . ... Source: legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com --- 67 days ago
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Tabacco, "I apologize for this Post because you will learn absolutely nothing from it about Torture. However you will get to see how Bush administration officials respond under Oath just as members of La Cosa Nostra would". ... Source: www.memestreams.net --- 27 days ago
At the convention, Sarah Palin quipped: "Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and [Obama]'s worried that someone won't read them their rights." Decius wrote: This is the road to despotism. This is the fevered dream of theocracy . This is America. Initially I thought Palin just hadn't been paying attention [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ] and didn't know what she was saying. But as her comment continues to reverberate, her intention becomes increasingly clear: this was not just an offhand or ignorant remark, but rather a big Fuck You to the Supreme Court and its decisions over the last four years. And in this she stands in league with McCain [and Yoo and Addington et al], echoing his disdain for the foundation of democracy. Anthony Lewis writes: Three times in the last four years the Supreme Court has rejected the Bush administration's legal defenses of its program for detention of alleged "enemy combatants." Each of these decisions brought an outcry from the political right. Senator John McCain, a survivor of torture as a prisoner in North Vietnam who was once a critic of the Bush detention practices, called Boumediene "one of the worst decisions in the history of the country." Opening the federal courts to habeas corpus applications from the detainees hardly promises them a swift ticket to freedom. But it marks at least a first step toward accountability—a forum where the treatment of a detainee and ... Source: meezerboy.com --- 9 days ago
1. Many of Yoo haff asked how Mommy is. She is doing okay but is still wateing to git her woound stitched up. I love haffing her heer all the time but I think she is getting bored. 2. Mommy found a FLEA on Tenny yesturday. We havvint bin outside so who knows how it got on her. But Mommy is taking it purrsonally, saying "No bugs are gonna bite on MY babies!!!" She pracktically ran to the fone to call Dr. Bobo and make an appointmint for Tenny to see him today. Now, fleas aren't emergencees but Tenny is overdoo for her yeerly checkup and shots anyhow. It wuz jes the shove Mommy needed to git Tenny to the vet. She tole me not to be surrpurrized if she brings home flea meddasin for me too! 3. My Grandpa Sam is coming home from a trip to Yurrip. He went to Paris and Rome and all over. My Grandpa Sam now haz more forin policy expurrience than Sarah Palin. 4. John McCane wants to suspend his kampane becuz of the budgit crisis? So as pressidint he will only be able to handle one crisis at a time? I am SO supporting Cheysuli. 5. I think my furrend Daisy is gitting a new housemate. She put a pitchur on her bloggy of this strange new cat yesturday and she has beautipuss eyes and I kant stop staring at them. I wood call her "Isis" becuz she looks so exotic. I kant wate to reed more! 6. Yesturday's Wordless Wensday pitchured me and my best manners. I wuz sittin on the barstool at the island in the kitchen eeting my fishy f ... Find more results for John Yoo on RSSMicro.com |
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clipped by: ratilfar clipper's remarks: But for our highest government officials, including the ones responsible for this prosecution, we have a different story altogether. In 2002, the Bush DOJ radically re-defined "torture" and illegal treatment of detainees to exclude anything that falls short of "the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The DOJ's John Yoo even decreed that the President could legally order "'scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance' thrown on a prisoner" and possibly even "slitting an ear, nose or lip, or disabling a tongue or limb." Clip Source: www.salon.com In seeking a more lenient sentence, one of Little's attorneys argued that the videos were not sadomasochistic. "Urine and vomit, our argument is, isn't sadistic or masochistic," James Benjamin said. "What about humiliation?" the judge asked. That, Benjamin replied, isn't in the legal definition of sadomasochistic. "Clearly, there seemed to be pain," Bucklew said. That was acting, Benjamin said. " The person that was involved in the conduct sat [in court] with a smile on her face and wrote your honor a letter saying, 'Judge, this was a beautiful part of my life.'" "I don't even think this is a close call," the judge said. The videos portrayed "sadistic conduct . . . This is clearly degrading, clearly humiliating and intended to be so ." UPDATE : Put another way, top Bush ad ...