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• Electing Judges And The Corruption of American Law

  
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  Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor are against them . I’ve always found it strange. Why would we elect someone who is supposed to be impartial? Judges are not supposed to reflect public opinion but that of the law. It has led to a partisan supercharging of election contests as the Democrats and Republicans ...
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• American KGB Hostel for the Brown Skinned

  
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  Hey kids!  This is war criminal Donald Rumsfeld visiting the KGB prison/torture museum in Lithuania in 2005.This is the Donald’s letter of thanks for the torture tour and twisted words of Soviet style propaganda.Below is our CIA torture facility in Lithuania, which was in operation in 2005.  It’s just down the ...
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• Bloody Hell!

  
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  Whats this then?  England’s uphill gardener, Tony Blair, say’s he would have invaded Iraq to remove Saddam, even if “we” knew Saddam had no WMD’s?  Come on Tony…we knew Saddam had no WMD’s, you knew, Iran knew, Hans Blix knew, the Queen Mum knew, Bono knew…What’s next England?  You going to tell ...
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• Blistering Indictment Leveled Against Obama Over His Handling of Bush-Era War Crimes

  
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  By GottaLaff Jason Leopold, a very thorough, very talented investigative reporter, has done an extensive piece on the Obama administration and its handling of BushCo war crimes. Its not easy to read some of his words, because the facts arent what some of us want them to be. As much as I admire President ...
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• Religious Anti-Torture Group Urges Holder to Produce OPR Report

  
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  At the beginning of this month, I noted that Attorney General Eric Holder, despite an explicit promise to Congress to produce by the end of last month the much-awaited ethics report from the Office of Professional Responsibility on the work of Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who drafted the so-called “torture ...
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• Very Disappointing

  
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  What if The Reverend, at the end of 2009, were to start defending the George W. Bush presidency? That would be quite a turnabout, wouldnt it? Pigs will fly, of course, before I would even consider doing anything so irresponsible. However, for President Barack Obama….defending the George W. Bush presidency is ...
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• Berkeley-Style Chutzpah

  
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  The first time I presented a Chutzpah of the Week award to the Berkeley City Council (for their rather innovative effort to bring to account John Yoo’s role in Bush Administration atrocities invoked in the name of its “ Global War on Terror “), I described their action as “ Kucinich-Style Chutzpah .” ...
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• Odds and ends for 12/10

  
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  Unintentional political zinger of the year : Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., asked whether he would filibuster the health-care bill because of the failure of his anti-abortion amendment, answered , “I have no Plan B.” Do scientists get tattoos? Why, yes. Yes, they do . Obama goes all in on torture : He’s asking ...
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• obama praises & wages war while accepting peace prize

  
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  in other news, freedom is slavery & ignorance is strength... from latimes: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize [in Oslo] today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments "slight" in comparison to past winners.But in his speech to the Nobel ...
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• Turley: Obama administration ‘gutting’ Nuremberg by seeking to dismiss suit against Yoo

  
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  The Obama administration has asked the Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit brought by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla against torture memo author John Yoo, asserting that Yoo cannot be sued for legal opinions he offered in the course of advising then-President Bush on national security matters. ...
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• Twist and Shout

  
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  Remember my obsession with torture, torture memos and John Yoo , the author of of the torture program in the Bush Administration?  Guess what?  The Obama Administration is defending him in Court. Holy Bad Idea! Jonathan Turley discussed this issue with Keith Olbermann on Countdown last night. You can watch ...
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• Obama- Et Tu Brute?- Defending Torture

  
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• Making Mischief (Presidential Legacy Edition)

  
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  My colleague, Dan McLaughlin , suggests via e-mail that perhaps it is now time to repeal the 22nd Amendment. It may make the Presidential race in 2012 interesting : Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, ...
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• Turley on Yoo and BushCo.

  
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  I really dont want to say how I feel about Obamas DOJ propping up BushCos torturous bastards. I am afraid I couldnt stop screaming at the top of my lungs. A national disgrace doesnt even come close as Prof Turley states.its an international disgrace what the DOJ is doing.
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• The John Yoo Theory of Gun Control

  
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  By Julian Sanchez A modest proposal: Suppose that we decide to streamline our inefficient criminal justice system by treating people under suspicion of involvement with violent crime—whether or not they’ve been arrested, charged, or even informed of this suspicion—as equivalent to convicted felons.  Suppose, ...
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• White House Wants Torture Suit against Yoo Dismissed

  
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  by Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle , Dec 8, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against ...
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• White House Wants Torture Suit against Yoo Dismissed

  
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  by Bob Egelko,  The San Francisco Chronicle , Dec 8, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO – The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of a terrorism suspect, saying federal law does not allow damage claims against ...
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• Yoo defends himself... sloppily

  
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  John Yoo (why is this man teaching law at Boalt in Berkeley instead of serving time behind bars?) publishes a self-serving article. In addition to being a war criminal, it appears he is a really crappy lawyer (or a very mendacious one, or both). Mary addresses his assertion that law is largely irrelevant. Check it ...
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• Obama lawyers: Drop John Yoos charges

  
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  By GottaLaff Its Talk Me Down time: Citing an argument that hallmarked the Bush years, Obama administration attorneys have asked a San Francisco court to drop all charges against Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who authored legal opinions that permitted the torture of prisoners . An amicus curiae brief ...
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• Yoo to OPR: Law is “Largely Irrelevant”

  
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  (Mary has graciously tutored many of us here about the significance of the Civil War case, Ex parte Milligan, to contemporary debates about detention (see also here and here and here ). So when I saw that John Yoo had written an article trying to explain why he’s been ignoring Milligan all these years, I ...
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