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布什智胜辩护律师的好的酷刑
星期五， 2009年1月30日
它来作为没有惊奇布什政府有对律师的一点爱。 在“Attorneygate之前”丑闻在九位美国律师附近开发了用他的第二个期限，前总统乔治W.生火。 布什花费了打击法庭律师的好相当数量时间，每当他有机会。 并且它是正义的 最近显露 那位布什受任命者布雷得里Schlozman，监督民权和选举权律师从2003年到2006年，想法他的充电比一束是少许更多“模子孢子”， “共产主义信徒”和“疯狂的解放”。 但现在，在出版的星期四社论 华尔街日报约翰Yoo，前代理副检察长为法律顾问办公室，解释布什政府的酷刑节目，他co创作法律辩解，最初被设计智胜诡计多端的辩护律师。 “所有律师将做的第一件事是告诉他的客户关闭”，写Yoo。 “[Khalid Mohammeds回教族长]或未来的Abu Zubaydahs将反应精确地是的没有口头问或欺骗-为什么被迫的布什政府毛毡使用强制措施在冠军”。 然而， Yoo忽略提及，在最高法院走进来之前，恐怖被告使用军事律师。 亦不他提及那 军法局长(尖齿)为后军队、空军和海军陆战队员 “说他们表达了他们的关心，当政策在3月解决在五角大楼和2003年4月”。 “虽然他们的给防御部门的总顾问的信件被分类，来源熟悉他们认为宽广地定义的律师担心，坚韧审讯战术不仅将违反耐久军事教条-离开许多个室为解释由审问者-，而且导致公开暴行，如果战术出名”，白色写为的Josh 华盛顿邮报 2005年。 参议员。 Graham的Lindsey (R-SC)，主持2005三军部队小组委员会听力，然后告诉高级军事律师， “如果他们从外边听您，我们不会有我们处理了的很多问题”。 显然地，布什政府未曾听他们。 In his time with the Department of Justice, John Yoo co-authored the Patriot Act and helped craft legal justifications for the Bush administration’s torture programs and the NSA’s full-spectrum spying apparatus. “Relying on the civilian justice system not only robs us of the most effective intelligence tool to avert future attacks, it provides an opportunity for our enemies to obtain intelligence on us,” continued Yoo. “If terrorists are now to be treated as ordinary criminals, their defense lawyers will insist that the government produce in open court all U.S. intelligence on their client along with the methods used by the CIA and NSA to get it. A defendant’s constitutional right to demand the government’s files often forces prosecutors to offer plea bargains to spies rather than risk disclosure of intelligence secrets.” In the piece, titled Obama Made a Rash Decision on Gitmo, Yoo also directly states that President Bush ordered waterboarding “three times” after 9/11. “Mr. Obama is returning America to the failed law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism that prevailed before Sept. 11, 2001,” he opined. Yoo argues Obama’s order banning torture “amounts to requiring — on penalty of prosecution — that CIA interrogators be polite,” and even parrots a Rove talking point: the claim that Obama’s ban of torture somehow “prohibits” good-cop, bad-cop interrogation routines with prisoners. “The Army Field Manual, for example, prohibits you from using good cop-bad cop in interrogating,” Rove said on Fox News’ Hannity on Monday. “The CIA must now conduct interrogations according to the rules of the Army Field Manual, which prohibits coercive techniques, threats and promises, and the good-cop bad-cop routines used in police stations throughout America,” writes Yoo Thursday. Of course, it doesn’t. “In fact, the Army Field Manual explicitly permits good cop-bad cop interrogations under the name of ‘Mutt and Jeff’ interrogations, which involve two interrogators ‘display[ing] opposing personalities and attitudes toward the source,’” reported Media Matters, on the instance of Rove introducing the manufactured “fact.” “The Field Manual says the ‘goal of this technique is to make the source identify with one of the interrogators and thereby establish[ing] rapport and cooperation.’” After stating unequivocally that the new interrogation rules will completely cut off any further intelligence from captured al-Qaeda members, he goes so far as to imply that President Obama is “na?ve.” “It is na?ve to say, as Mr. Obama did in his inaugural speech, that we can ‘reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals,’” opines Yoo. “That high-flying rhetoric means that we must give al-Qaeda — a hardened enemy committed to our destruction — the same rights as garden-variety criminals at the cost of losing critical intelligence about real, future threats.” His opinion seems to be that suspected terrorists should be given no rights, and the government should not be burdened with needing to provide legitimate evidence against the accused. “Zacarias Moussaoui, the only member of the 9/11 cell arrested before the attack, turned his trial into a circus by making such demands,” his screed against the American justice system concludes. “He was convicted after four years of pretrial wrangling only because he chose to plead guilty. Expect more of this, but with far more valuable intelligence at stake.” This, coming from the man who once refused to say whether, under his definition of executive power, the president could order a man buried alive. Speaking with a reporter, Yoo also agreed with an analysis of executive power which posited the hypothetical situation in which Bush might order a boy’s testicles “crushed” in order to affect a response from his parents. On the legality of such an order, Yoo said, “I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.” “The real reason John Yoo wrote this foolish, inaccurate piece is in the hopes of gathering around him some support for his illegal actions,” writes RAW STORY investigative news editor Larisa Alexandrovna on her blog, at-Largely. “You may wish to read his latest epic verbiage festival, but I would urge you not to waste your time,” she writes. “The man is a liar, a coward, and now defends his illegal actions by using lies and discredited propaganda to justify the unjustifiable.” Ron Brynaert contributed to this report. Have Your Say: Bush okayed torture to outwit defense lawyers Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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