Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred'

[CanonRay]

The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be "massacred," according to a report by released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

More:

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/19/report-bush-lawyer-said-president-could-order-civilians-to-be-massacred.aspx

[Bluebear]

1. Which village? Greenwich?

You never know with Republicans.

[Mika]

14. New Orleans. n/t

[Turbineguy]

2. No wonder repubs are scared.

[aquart]

10. Of what? Doesn't say he can massacre gated communities.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I got a sudden feeling that Bush's name is on a few lists.

A sudden but not unhappy feeling.

[defendandprotect]

5. David Margolis . . . ???

[defendandprotect]

4. Find a crazy lawyer and you can do anything you want -- !!

And Yoo is certainly one of the Bush crazies --

[Historic NY]

7. Kinda like Orly with pants.

[defendandprotect]

17. We are waiting for a push to disbar him? Where the hell is the ABA????

Would think they'd be out there picketing these lawyers!!!

The world has been turned upside down by corruption!!

[SpiralHawk]

6. Republicon Family Values. Again.

You just can't go any lower.

[agent46]

8. I wonder

I wonder what else is crawling around down there?

Another glimpse into the soul corrupting filth that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeldt, Rush, Beck, Coulter and all the lesser tools have been championing for over a decade now - some far longer than that. If America isn't dead yet it's certainly in a perilous state of shock and trauma.

[Fumesucker]

9. Not to worry, Obama's Justice Dept has said all is copacetic..

Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

[unhappycamper]

11. Ya just gotta love John Yoo.

Not.

[SlingBlade]

12. They WILL be back !

Whether or not you decide to LOOK backwards or not.

Remember, Nixon's crowd, Remember Regan's crowd ?

They'll be back, Seven times more evil, Seven time more dangerous and seven times more powerful.

But don't look back , Look to the bright and shinning future,

There, I've done my part Mr. President, I've looked ..... Forward

[TomClash]

13. Well, we know Governors can

Kent State - May 4, 1970. Filo won a Pulitzer for this photo.

Given what this country's government has done, no one should be surprised at Yoo's statement.

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. a village...or some tall buildings full of civilians in New York?

That's a problem with "end justifies means" -- once you excuse mass murder, where's the line?

[pansypoo53219]

16. um, didn't they go on and on and on

BECAUSE SADDAM DID THAT??????