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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn 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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John Yoo on torture: Rectal violation is not allowed, crushing a child's testicles is no problem (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
A flat out lie. Everything short of purposely killing someone was okayed by Yoo
underpants
Dec 2014
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)1. I fucking despise this man
I think I hate him more than his idol Dick Cheney in fact.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)7. Impossible for me to hate anyone more than I do Dick Cheney
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. Yoo was only following orders.
The trains to war without end for profits without cease must run on time.
underpants
(182,868 posts)3. Yes Yoo was their "prescription writer"
As Jane Mayer detailed in "The Dark Side". Addington Flanigan and Cheney never even went through AG Ashcroft, they went right to Yoo. They told him what the finished product should be and he worked from there. Often citing his own writings as a reference.
underpants
(182,868 posts)4. A flat out lie. Everything short of purposely killing someone was okayed by Yoo
He should be in jail.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)5. In our name.
This shit is being done in OUR NAME as Americans.
FUCK
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)8. Another demented fuckwit that should never see the light of day
for the rest of his evil, rotten life. Why the hell is this mini-Himmler teaching at a law school of all places?
Matariki
(18,775 posts)9. "people with broken limbs being forced to stand for hours and hours" - BROKEN BY WHO???
I'm finding it incredible to believe that our Nation is arguing whether what was done was torture or not, and whether torture had value.
Makes you weep.
nt