Maybe Yoo, but not Mee.
What happens when the shoe is on the other foot ... or a Pubbie Administration.
The Obama Administration, I think, is picking and choosing their battles. Sometimes wisely and sometimes not. On this issue I believe that they do not want Holder & Company to be hunted down in 3 years or 8.
Yoo is a brilliant man that can hit back with some real zingers. He mopped up the floor with John Stewart.
One of the left’s favorite tactics is to attack and try to destroy the individual conservative. We need to do the same. The lawyers behind this petition need to be identified and conservative legal groups need to file complaints and lawsuits against them on whatever basis can be developed. Make them spend their time and money defending themselves, not just attacking conservatives.
That is absolute bull***t. I've read the memo. It said, basically, that existing "positive law" (mostly treaties) defining what "torture" is are pretty vague/ give few concrete guidelines. "Torture," as I remember the memo(*), included breaking bones, causing organ or joint failure, OR causing pain commensurate with such injuries. Actions short of that line, a very fuzzy line, were not "torture" and were at least technically legal. That may be a correct or incorrect view of the law, but there is no indication of bad faith. The article just flat-out lies when it says Yoo said the Pres could authorize torture. (*-- It's possible I read the other so-called "torture memo" by Jay Bybee. If so, I apologize.)