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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:27 PM
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Yoo: Court Rejection Of Bush Detainee Policy Is An Effort ‘To Deny What Happened On 9/11
Edited on Mon Jun-18-07 01:44 PM by kpete
Yoo: Court Rejection Of Bush Detainee Policy Is An Effort ‘To Deny What Happened On 9/11′

Appearing on Fox News’ Journal Editorial Report this weekend, former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, a primary architect of the administration’s detainee policies, attacked a recent court decision barring the indefinite detention of civilians by the military as an effort “to deny what happened on September 11.”

Using that claim as his premise, Yoo disingenuously attacked the legal reasoning of the decision while also arguing that the court decision is not a rejection of Bush administration policy.

Video and Transcript at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/18/yoo-al-marri/
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:29 PM
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1. Why do I dislike this man so much?
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:30 PM
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2. That man needs to be in prison too
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:30 PM
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3. history won't be kind to Mr. Yoo
atleast I hope so...
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:37 PM
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7. Hmm, me thinks if he were 'detained' under his own policies...
...he would crumble like Paris Hilton...

He is a despicable human being...
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:31 PM
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4. Yoo's a Nazi!
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:23 PM
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15. Yoo said it's OK to crush a child's testicles.
Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children

That's NAZI.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:34 PM
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5. "A failure to give Hitler total power would be to deny the Reichstag Fire!"
It's testimony to the abysmal sickness in our body politic that Yoo could even say something like this and expect it to benefit his position in any way. A sane nation would have him committed.
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reichstag911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:36 PM
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6. Funny,...
...I've thought that very thing for a while now. (See my userid.) ;)
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:40 PM
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8. Good analogy
And yes, I agree. These points of view you'd expect to hear at a John Birch Society meeting, not a major scholar and legal architect.

All it does is validate the already fringe element in RW politics.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 03:13 PM
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12. Woo woo Yoo
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 01:56 PM
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9. I think Berkeley should revoke Yoo's tenure, then fire him.
That's not something I say lightly.
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devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 02:04 PM
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11. If DePaul can get rid of Norman Finkelstein why not bounce Yoo...
I couldn't agree more.
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coalition_unwilling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:26 PM
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16. I cannot for the life of me understand why there isn't a constant
protest of Yoo at UC-Berkeley, especially given its rep as being a leader in civil dissent during the '60s.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 02:01 PM
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10. Whenever, I listen to Yoo, I can't help but to think of Germany in the 30s. n/t
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:21 PM
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14. me, too,
there is something totally bizarre about his theories, stuff that upsets me to my very core. Even if I cannot put my finger on any particular, I find myself shaking my head and wondering, "Who can or would believe this shit?" and then it strikes me. Faux Gnus thrives on nonthinking people. They want drivel. They want to be told what to "believe", and they refuse to ever deal with an issue on a rational basis.

to hell with yoo.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:20 PM
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13. imprisoning w/o charges and trial is Unamerican
I don't care what Yoo tries to stir up, fear, anxiety, hysteria, our government is based on the constitution and the freedoms it
guarantees, just becuz this administration ignored the basic rights granted our citizens doesn't mean that these rights
have ceased to exist. They do exist and now that America is awakening from it's mindless frenzied panic after 9-11, our
judges and courts will realize this.
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HowHasItComeToThis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:32 PM
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17. JOHN YOO IS IN IT FOR THE MONEY
I WENT TO CAL AND MY WIFE IS CHINESE.

HE REPRESENTS NEITHER CAL NOR CHINESE THINKING.

THEN THERE IS CONDI OF STANFORD, DITTO
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TheWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:45 PM
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18. Oh I COMPLETELY Deny what happened on 9/11
At least the version the government told me. ;)
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 05:47 PM
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19. I guess we aren't supposed to attach a YEAR to "9/11"---so that nobody realizes how MANY YEARS AGO
Edited on Mon Jun-18-07 05:48 PM by WinkyDink
the disaster occurred.

Bushco wants to say "9/11" FOREVER.

Well, ya know? I'm going to start saying "Remember 12/07"!
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caligirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 06:47 PM
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20. UC REGENTS need to get informed by the blogosphere its past time
to fire this guy.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-18-07 06:58 PM
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21. Fuck Yoo.
A third-rate legal mind enabling the gutting of the Constitution of The United States.

Treason.
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