Another one of John Yoo's masterpieces
Not like we didn't know this before, but this time it's official! The George W. Bush administration is ABOVE FEDERAL LAW. The statutes and limitations applying to us mere mortals do not apply to the office of the commander-in-chief or his subordinates. Imagine that.
The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.
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Sent to the Pentagon's general counsel on March 14, 2003, by John C. Yoo, then a deputy in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, the memo provides an expansive argument for nearly unfettered presidential power in a time of war. It contends that numerous laws and treaties forbidding torture or cruel treatment should not apply to U.S. interrogations in foreign lands because of the president's inherent wartime powers.
Oh yeah, and they don't torture either.
As Andrew Sullivan recently stated,
One day this president and vice-president will be prosecuted for war crimes.
2 comments:
Scandal and impropriety by this administration are like the energizer bunny. It just keeps going and going... And yet at this point I don't particularly care if they are ever prosocuted. I just want them gone!
Your not the only one sick of these guys, Red Hog. The entire country is suffering from Bush fatigue.
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