Video Of Torture Master John Yoo

by DIG THE HEAVY | February 1, 2007 at 08:24 pm

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......Being Asked To Justify "Crushing Children's Testicles" Comments - The Baker Institute Student Forum (BISF) hosted a
discussion involving three panelists on November 3 2006, one of
which was John Yoo, co author of the PATRIOT ACT and various controversial
memos in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and
that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva
Conventions. Yoo also decreed that it was legal to declare war anytime,
any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat..................More

Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.