My My My ... US Court of Appeals Judge Bybee Seems To Have A Problem....

[Blackhatjack]

As addressed on Countdown and Maddow tonight:

According to 'leaks' now confirmed in the Armed Services Comm Report, there appears to have been a telephone call in Dec 2001 from the Pentagon to the SERE Unit to ask for their help in incorporating their torture techniques into the US interrogation procedure --BEFORE Bybee wrote his torture technique memo for the Bush Administration.

This would appear to be an attempt to Okay torture techniques which might have already been in use at or before the time he gave his approval in his memo.

Retroactive approval of torture stinks even worse than prospective torture, and certainly undermines any attempt to allege he used his 'independent legal judgment' in arriving at the conclusion that torture techniques detailed therein would be Okay.