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CdnTarHeel rated 4 months ago- Yoo's notorious legal memo is now declassified. After reading it, I think that Jack Goldsmith, who took over the Office of Legal Counsel after Yoo departed, hits the nail on the head. This memo, along with the one in 2002, stand out for their "unusual lack of care and sobriety."
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- laws are for cowards Connecticut cowboys don't have to follow them.
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- Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators Justice Dept. Official in 2003 Said President's Wartime Authority Trumped Many Statutes By Dan Eggen and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, April 2, 2008 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. The 81-page memo, which was declassified and released publicly yesterday, argues that poking, slapping or shoving detainees would not give rise to criminal liability. The document also appears to defend the use of mind-altering drugs that do not produce "an extreme effect" calculated to "cause a profound disruption of the senses or personality." Although the existence of the memo has long been known, its contents had not been previously disclosed. Nine months after it was issued, Justice Department officials told the Defense Department to stop relying on it. But its reasoning provided the legal foundation for the Defense Department's use of aggressive interrogation practices at a crucial time, as captives poured into military jails from Afghanistan and U.S. forces prepared to invade Iraq. 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. ...
