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布什智勝辯護律師的好的酷刑
星期五， 2009年1月30日
它來作為沒有驚奇布什政府有對律師的一點愛。 在「Attorneygate之前」醜聞在九位美國律師附近開發了用他的第二個期限，前總統喬治W.生火。 布什花費了打擊法庭律師的好相當數量時間，每當他有機會。 并且它是正義的 最近顯露 那位布什受任命者布雷得里Schlozman，監督民權和選舉權律師從2003年到2006年，想法他的充電比一束是少許更多「模子孢子」， 「共產主義信徒」和「瘋狂的解放」。 但現在，在出版的星期四社論 華爾街日報約翰Yoo，前代理副檢察長為法律顧問辦公室，解釋布什政府的酷刑節目，他co創作法律辯解，最初被設計智勝詭計多端的辯護律師。 「所有律師將做的第一件事是告訴他的客戶關閉」，寫Yoo。 「[Khalid Mohammeds回教族長]或未來的Abu Zubaydahs將反應精確地是的沒有口頭問或欺騙-為什麼被迫的布什政府毛氈使用強制措施在冠軍」。 然而， Yoo忽略提及，在最高法院走進來之前，恐怖被告使用軍事律師。 亦不他提及那 軍法局長(尖齒)為後軍隊、空軍和海軍陸戰隊員 「說他們表達了他們的關心，當政策在3月解決在五角大樓和2003年4月」。 「雖然他們的給防禦部門的總顧問的信件被分類，來源熟悉他們認為寬廣地定義的律師擔心，堅韌審訊戰術不僅將違反耐久軍事教條-離開許多個室為解釋由審問者-，而且導致公開暴行，如果戰術出名」，白色寫為的Josh 華盛頓郵報 2005年。 參議員。 Graham的Lindsey (R-SC)，主持2005三軍部隊小組委員會聽力，然後告訴高級軍事律師， 「如果他們從外邊聽您，我們不會有我們處理了的很多問題」。 顯然地，布什政府未曾聽他們。 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 “naïve.” “It is naïve 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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