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John Yoo on torture: Rectal violation is not allowed, crushing a child's testicles is no problem
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When CNN host Fareed Zakaria asked him about CIA techniques like "forced rectal feeding", "threatening to rape the mothers of prisoners" and "people with broken limbs being forced to stand for hours and hours," Attorney Yoo said that would be against the rules (if it in fact it happened):
"Those are very troubling examples. They would not have been approved by the Justice Department. They were not approved by the Justice Department at the time...They were not supposed to be done and those people who did those are at risk legally because they were acting outside their orders."
But during a December 2005 symposium in Chicago, Yoo argued that under his theory of the "unitary executive" and virtually unlimited presidential power as Commander-in-Chief, President Bush could legally order those tortures and much worse. Yoo was asked:
"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?"
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Continue reading below about John Yoo's balls here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/15/1351882/-John-Yoo-on-torture-Rectal-violation-is-not-allowed-crushing-a-child-s-testicles-is-no-problem
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The trains to war without end for profits without cease must run on time.
for the rest of his evil, rotten life. Why the hell is this mini-Himmler teaching at a law school of all places? 
