John Yoo – proud torture advocate – is still a law professor
John Yoo has provided legal justification for enhanced interrogation technique torture. He is an advocate of the dictatorship-like “commander-in-chief”-understanding of president’s powers in “war times”. Yoo was a part and has been questioned in a legal investigation concerning the torture practice of the CIA. The so-called “ethics investigation” seems to have been stopped without really pursuing and prosecuting the bad guys, or even setting clear limits to such legal council as they delivered it. To read the morbid and horrifying logic that Yoo uses to justify dicatatorship and the abolishment of human rights, you can read his self-rightous article “My gift to the Obama presidency”:
In 2005, a Navy Seal team dropped into Afghanistan encountered goat herders who clearly intended to inform the Taliban of their whereabouts. The team leader ordered them released, against his better military judgment, because of his worries about the media and political attacks that would follow.
In less than an hour, more than 80 Taliban fighters attacked and killed all but one member of the Seal team and 16 Americans on a helicopter rescue mission. If a president cannot, or will not, protect the men and women who fight our nation’s wars, they will follow the same risk-averse attitudes that invited the 9/11 attacks in the first place.
So, to defend an army unit which is infiltrating and thereby occupying a foreign country, it should be considered good practice to kill any goat herders lurking around. After all, what are they doing in a military area? Yeah, this is the real power, that Obama will ultimately need.. At least if he wants to further the anger at the US strategies around the world and get more people to fight against the US and eventually bring the war to the American Citizens.
Instead of sending Yoo to a Guantanamoesque prison facility he got back to his old job of being professor of law at UC Berkeley, where surely he will be able to pass on his great wisdom. This cartoon depicts the irony of the whole thing:
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Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, CIA, Folter, guantanamo, human rights, John Yoo, Menschenrechte, torture
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