He came out with a 'homeland safety' report a few months back which endorsed the Bush programs and promised a smooth transition to more fascism.

There is just one party, The Money Party, with its Republican and Democratic wings. There is no crime too great to be swept under the carpet for members of this party. Their very existence is based on perpetrating crimes: invasions without any threat to this country; "sending troops" where there is no declared war or imminent danger to this country; propping up Wall Street crooks by giving them $14 trillion to date, etc.

Why would we expect anything different from this administration. They're a part of the problem, fully made members of The Money Party.

This is not a dying republic. It's dead.

Yoo is now on the faculty at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school. Nuff said.

Hear is the link to his profile.

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/facultyProfile.php?facID=235

"There are two types of folk music:
quiet folk music and loud folk music.
I play both."

Dave Alvin

Margolis has been at DoJ for a long time...40 years or something i think. He's a career DoJ lawyer, and as such is probably doing the covering up for actions that if closely examined and prosecuted would purge many of his co-careerists.

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if closely examined and prosecuted would purge many of his co-careerists himself.

It doesn't matter to Dick Cheney's daughter whether gay people can legally marry so they can make medical decisions for each other or inherit the house they live in. When you have more money than God you can have an entire medical wing named after you. If someone doesn't like the medical decisions you're not supposed to be making, you can hire a fleet of lawyers to pound them to smithereens.

It doesn't matter to his other daughter whether she has an unwanted pregnancy in Alabama. She can go for a Swiss ski vacation and have that taken care of.

Did you approve torture? Just admit it on national TV and have someone who is already compromised make it good for you after the fact. It's not like you're some disreputable mafia don who gives the okay to break some deadbeat's knees. Now THAT would be prosecutable.

then folks like John Yoo will reap what they've sown-- along with their families, friends, co-villains, and basically everything they've touched. People will invent new torture techniques just for them and their ilk. And none of it will settle the scales for the suffering they've caused to others.

Until that time, they get away with it altogether. That's the game they chose to play, which is called injustice. The rest of us would prefer a different game, but they prefer the ugly one.

Newsweek, By Michael Isikoff, February 20

The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so extreme and out of step with legal precedents that they prompted the Justice Department's internal watchdog office to conclude last year that he committed "intentional professional misconduct" when he advised the CIA it could proceed with waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against Al Qaeda suspects.

The report by OPR concludes that Yoo, now a Berkeley law professor, and his boss at the time, Jay Bybee, now a federal judge, should be referred to their state bar associations for possible disciplinary proceedings. But, as first reported by NEWSWEEK, another senior department lawyer, David Margolis, reviewed the report and last month overruled its findings on the grounds that there was no clear and "unambiguous" standard by which OPR was judging the lawyers. Instead, Margolis, who was the final decision-maker in the inquiry, found that they were guilty of only "poor judgment."

The report, more than four years in the making, is filled with new details into how a small group of lawyers at the Justice Department, the CIA, and the White House crafted the legal arguments that gave the green light to some of the most controversial tactics in the Bush administration's war on terror. They also describe how Bush administration officials were so worried about the prospect that CIA officers might be criminally prosecuted for torture that one senior official - Attorney General John Ashcroft - even suggested that President Bush issue "advance pardons" for those engaging in waterboarding, a proposal that he was quickly told was not possible.

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"What about ordering a village of resistants to be massacred? ... Is that a power that the president could legally -"

"Yeah," Yoo replied, according to a partial transcript included in the report. "Although, let me say this: So, certainly, that would fall within the commander-in-chief's power over tactical decisions."

"To order a village of civilians to be [exterminated]?" the OPR investigator asked again.

"Sure," said Yoo.

I have concluded they are essentially the main problem. Neocons and assorted weasels like the Volokh Conspiracy types, nasty corrupt judges, ridiculous federal prosecutors, yr everyday neocons, they are all damn nasty 'authoritarian lawyers.' Who's with me?

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