Posts tagged: CIA

John Yoo – proud torture advocate – is still a law professor

authorOmar | 3. März 2010

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”…

Laying blame for the past

authorOmar | 6. Mai 2009

Barack Obama:

“Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.”

Like the brother said

The only rationale for not holding the previous administration accountable is the own fear of being held accountable one day.

We don’t torture!

authorOmar | 24. April 2009

We don’t torture! Jon Stewart kommentiert die Veröffentlichung der Folterwirklichkeit in US-Gefängnissen.

Ganz interessant dabei: No one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they’re just upset that they now know about it.