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• Takuan commented on John "enhanced interrogation" Yoo gets punk'd
  @18 Demidan, thanks hence forth he shall be known as "the camel"....
• J France commented on John "enhanced interrogation" Yoo gets punk'd
  And just a reminder who these guys are. When George Bush came to Sydney, Au for the APEC meeting a few years ago, they staged a "secure" motorcade, with fake credentials (that said "these are fake" on them) and waltzed through two security checkpoints until they where AT THE HOTEL all the gathered world leaders were staying and the conference being held. video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GclCE0cLA-o One of the guys was in the backseat of a limo in a bad Osama Bin Laden outfit, and it was when they got too close they chose to abort... since half the AFP's automatic weapons...
• Rindan commented on John "enhanced interrogation" Yoo gets punk'd
  John Yoo has a position at Berkeley??? Why is this man still employed anywhere? Maybe because black listing people for impure political thoughts is a bad idea? M'kay? I am pretty violently against torture. Hell, I am against all corporal punishment. That said, I recognize the value of descent, even when I disagree with it, and especially in cases where we are talking about a rational person with rational beliefs. This isn't a crazy religious whack-job trying to beat people with a bible. This is a policy maker with a legitimate difference of opinion. The idea that he should be...
• yrogerg commented on John "enhanced interrogation" Yoo gets punk'd
  @37 Rindan, But, Yoo is faculty in International Law. The only way it could be worse is if he were teaching ConLaw. Are you telling me you're comparing the persecution of random individuals for substantially unrelated political views to the idea that it's a bit atrocious that a respected instituion would have a faculty member whose main contributions to the body of law the previous decade was described by members of the administration he worked for as "catastrophically poor", have been renounced by the Office of Legal Counsel, and are presently being investigated by the Justice Department for professional misconduct...
• Rindan commented on John "enhanced interrogation" Yoo gets punk'd
  @38 YROGERG, Yoo isn't a flat earther. The guy has a legitimate and rational difference of opinion, and I bet he can probably defend it. If you glance at his Wikipedia article it is pretty clear that the guy is stuffed to the neck with various distinctions and commendations that span both before and after Bush. This isn't some cast out creationist who has no respect or distinction in his field. This is a guy with far more distinction than most in his field who served under a president, and was convincing enough to shift policy. The fact that the...