Reply #5: "Yoo also declined to be interviewed" [View All]

[JackRiddler]

That's outrageous - no one asked me! The nerve...

(sorry)

But seriously now:

In what appears otherwise to be a straight factual report, author Gerstein repeatedly adjectivizes the "liberals" who have some weird partisan bug up their ass about rule of law, war crimes and Yoo. No counterpart label for Yoo and co. is used.

Reading justifications on how the executive naturally protects the executive makes me think you need a fourth branch devoted solely to enforcing law on the executive.

Cannot like this first signal on how things are developing, predictable or not. As the article says, a host of these cases are coming up. The glimmer of hope, and it's only a glimmer, is in the giving of the Rumsfeldian perspective: that these Bush beasts had best bring along their own "shadow counsel," as they can't trust the lawyers from Obama's DoJ.

But let's face it, that's bull. There shouldn't be any pretend about it. Obama declared Yoo's opinions null and void, there was a reason for that. The government shouldn't be providing the defense. Yoo can afford his own lawyer, and is getting generous treatment under the rule of law, the exact opposite of what he advocated.