May 21, 2004


Say it ain't so...

Gosh could you ever imagine behavior like this from the 1600 Crew?

A series of Justice Department memorandums written in late 2001 and the first few months of 2002 were crucial in building a legal framework for United States officials to avoid complying with international laws and treaties on handling prisoners, lawyers and former officials say.

The confidential memorandums, several of which were written or co-written by John C. Yoo, a University of California law professor who was serving in the department, provided arguments to keep United States officials from being charged with war crimes for the way prisoners were detained and interrogated. They were endorsed by top lawyers in the White House, the Pentagon and the vice president's office but drew dissents from the State Department.
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Prof. Detlev Vagts, an authority on international law and treaties at Harvard Law School, said the arguments in the memorandums as described to him "sound like an effort to find loopholes that could be used to avoid responsibility."

Naaaah, no one in the 1600 Crew would ever avoid responsibility, that's so ... not adult, and they are back in charge, right?

posted by Jo Fish on 05.21.04 at 02:06 AM





Comments:

Yoo who? Isn't he the guy that pops up on the Lehrer News Hour from time to time as a legal expert? He reminds me of W. C. Fields in his movie role of an attorney leafing through the Internal Revenue Code being asked what he was looking for: "Loopholes, loopholes!" Yoo is relatively young. He has fallen into the trap of ideology that he will have to defend for the rest of his career. As Mary Tyler Moore (or Ray Romano?) would say, "Oh Yoo."

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 05.21.04 at 06:40 AM [permalink]



"Willie could find a loophole in the Ten Commandments."
-The Fortune Cookie

posted by: dean on 05.21.04 at 10:16 AM [permalink]



John Kerry has a plan to close those loopholes, right around their necks we hope and pray...

ohhh time for a replay from Carlysle Army War College... that name rings a bell, for some reason when a Bush name is mentioned with it...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.25.04 at 02:02 AM [permalink]



Carlisle College, maybe just a coincidence...

posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.25.04 at 08:01 AM [permalink]






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