The Fabrications of Jay S. Bybee

The Fabrications of Jay S. Bybee
By Martin Garbus
May 14, 2009

... Bybee makes sure there are no facts in the memorandum to contradict him. I felt sick as I read it. In his August 2002 memo Bybee writes, "We also understand that you do not have any facts in your possession contrary to the facts outlined here and this opinion is limited to these facts. If these facts were to change, this advice would not necessarily apply."

Nothing in Bybee's memo is based on firsthand knowledge. He tries to protect himself from the possibility of contradiction or responsibility as he keeps total deniability.

Throughout the memo, he gives himself outs and defenses, but he is too subtle to argue for one position or another. He relies on oral information from individual parties so that there are no written records to support or contradict his "facts." He can always say, moreover, if a "source" is identifiable, that it was someone else who gave him the information.

He keeps it all ambiguous and attributes the transparently false statements to someone else. Bybee prefaces factual statements with language that passes responsibility to the CIA: "...your intelligence indicates..."; "Based on the information you have provided...."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/garbus

The next time you see Supernova and all the rest
of the Triangle Gang, tell them I said "Hi", won't you?

I miss y'all a LOT.

But it doesn't look like I'll be "assembling"
with anyone in NC ever again.

I'm so very SAD about that. I've been a lot of places,
and seen a lot of things, and the Triangle was just
the most amazing composite of all the BEST stuff I ever enjoyed.

I can't ever go back there- you know my ex-Sweetie was
very well CONNECTED to the movers & shakers behind the scenes in NC...
and when she goes off her Meds, she REALLY goes off her meds.

I'm sure she'll get back on track, just like she always has...
(she really always DOES, you know)...but that won't put me and her
back together.

She's a child of MILLIONAIRES; her dad was President
of the NC Medical Society, her grandpa won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
in 1915...
She attented the best Private Academy in NC, then earned a dual degree
from Swarthmore....and a MASTERS degree from UNC.

Me? I've had almost ten years of rural public Schoolin';
my family has been here since 1720 and I don't think
any of us have ever ATTENTED College, let alone earned a "degree"'




Dude, it's AMAZING that she and I were together for 9 DAYS...
but we were together for 9 years and a week.
She's just that awesome.

But, when she's pissed and psychotic, she's AWESOMELY pissed,
and she's got the resources to express her displeasure
on a Statewide level.
(Dude, the NC Governor picks up the phone when he sees her number
on his CallerID. That's no BS- I've been there and seen it happen)

So, I'm currently hiding out in a hole in the woods in a Red State,
and I'm leery of even going across the river into Virginia.

:kick: