Torture advocate John Yoo: Bin Laden should have been captured, not killed

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Sahil Kapur

Former Bush legal counsel John Yoo, best known for authoring memos to legally justify torture, said Thursday that President Barack Obama should have captured — rather than killed — Osama Bin Laden, so he could be interrogated for information.

“The best, most reliable information we can get is from interrogation, and I’m worried that this administration has closed off that flow of intelligence since President Obama took office,” Yoo told CNN’s Eliot Spitzer.

Yoo said killing the al Qaeda would have been justified if the Navy SEALS were attacked, but “if they were going in with no options other than to kill him, then that’s a problem.”

The UC-Berkeley professor argued — without evidence — that Obama didn’t want to take bin Laden alive. “I do think that they don’t want to capture high level al Qaeda leaders,” he said. “They don’t want to take anybody and send them to Guantanamo Bay.”

Watch the video from CNN.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/torture-advocate-john-yoo-bin-laden-should-have-been-captured-not-killed/

[Champion Jack]

1. Waterboard John Yoo

[librechik]

2. huh? Oh right. Now it's a Democrat.

Therefore, whatever he did is wrong. Unlike the other Executive(Bush) --everything he did was Right! Even the Wrong stuff!

[sharp_stick]

3. Is there anybody else

that would like to kick John Yoo in the nuts just on principle? Personally I'd like to waterboard this fuck and his buddy Doug Feith a couple of hundred times.

[JTFrog]

4. Fuck Yoo. n/t

[Blue Owl]

5. Sucks to be Yoo

What a POS

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Well, he's certainly the final moral authority, isn't he?

geez louise
:eyes:

[Cerridwen]

7. Hell,

bush failed to even do that much. Must bug the shit out of yoo that President Obama succeeded where bush failed.

edit to add link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1052015

[northoftheborder]

8. Mr. Yoo, go away already. You've caused enough damage.

You should consider yourself lucky you're not in prison.

[KansDem]

9. Hey, John! Go f*ck Yoo-self!!!

:finger:

[driver8]

10. Everyone from the Bush administration should STFU...

They botched every thing they put their hands on.

It is unbelievable to me that these idiots have the balls to comment on anything.