The End of the Yoo Doctrine »

Posted By tehranchik 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
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The Office of Legal Counsel has just released a series of previously secret opinions from the Bush Administration. Perhaps equally important, it has issued two remarkable opinions, one from October 6th, 2008 and one from January 15th, 2009 which essentially disown the extreme theories of Presidential power offered during the crucial period between 2001 and 2003 when John Yoo was at the OLC.

These two memos were issued in the last days of the Bush Administration and they bear the signature of Steven G. Bradbury, the Acting OLC head from 2005 to 2009 and who wrote memos justifying many of the Bush Administration's detention and interrogation practices after the original torture memos were revealed and disowned. These two memos from October 2008 and January 2009 do not reverse the OLC's views about the legality of specific interrogation, detention and surveillance practices. What they do is to announce that the theories used to justify these practices are no longer taken seriously at the OLC and that executive branch officials should not rely on them.

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    myfairlady9 months, 4 weeks ago

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    It attempts to excuse these statements on the grounds that the OLC memos were issued under extraordinary circumstances.

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      sinophil499 months, 4 weeks ago

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      The neocons keep harping about Obama and the Democrats and Socialism. It now turns out that the real danger to our Republic was the looming threat of Fascism under Bush/Cheney.

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        sinophil499 months, 4 weeks ago

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        I googled John Yoo and found out that he is a law professor at the Univeristy of California at Berkeley School of Law.

        Irony of ironies. An arch-conservative teaching in the hotbed of liberalism and protest in the 60's and 70's.

        Is Berkeley still the same or, Heaven Forbid, turned staid and conservative???

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