John Yoo was the ONE of the FEW guys who EMBARRASSED MENTALLY the tiny “intelligence” of Jon Stewart when it came to Bush and torture..
This guy literally explained succinetly and in simple terms torturing terrorists as a good thing that the brain-dead, liberal crowd of Stewart to go silent for 10 minutes straight and not even Stewart’s funny face could save him. Yoo is really an intelligent guy. Bush really made a great pick in him.
Stewart obviously wanted to ambush and ridicule him but Yoo turned the tables. One of the few conservative guests who actually silenced the crowd..
We should clone an army of John Woos. Smiling and friendly, great sense of humor, impossible to ruffle, impeccably competent.
I hope we see more of him in the next administration.
The way this issue was handled by the Bush administration is troubling.
They recruited attorneys to say that in their legal opinion X did not constitute torture.
The attorneys are not responsible for the results, because all they did is provide a legal opinion.
The interrogators are not responsible because they followed legal advice.
I’m not saying the practices in question constituted torture, or necessarily that torture itself is always wrong. (There’s something weird about a society where it’s okay to kill people, but never to hurt them.)
What I am saying is this “spread the responsibility around till nobody is accountable” approach is problematic by nature.