Comments on: The Yoo “Exclusivity” Opinion: More Outrageous Hackery

By: Leen

Leen — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:07:15 +0000

If this happened I might believe in this country and our justice system. Until then still looking at land in Costa Rica.

Living in a country where most Americans have their pedals to the metal getting to the mall while their country is responsible for the deaths of over one million Iraqi people and 4 million Iraqi refugees has just become too much for some of us. I don’t want to have to push this hard for my leaders to do the right thing.

By: MarieRoget

MarieRoget — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:26:29 +0000

Thanks, kspena. MP3 file of Scott Horton’s interview yesterday is now up here:

http://antiwar.com/radio/2008/.....horton-10/

By: Telebro

Telebro — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:12:37 +0000

I look forward to Attorney General John Edwards directing investigations into illegal torture, rendition, wiretapping, politicization of government agencies, prosecution of political opponents, programming of voting machines, voter suppression, lying about war and everything else, waste of taxpayer money, and destroying evidence. I don’t think the country can go forward without prosecution of this criminal administration, and the torture and wiretapping should be the easiest to pursue.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:44:30 +0000

From the OIG report, p. 39.

The Abu Ghraib prison was selected by the Coalition Provisional Authority as the primary civilian detention facility in Iraq, despite its Saddam-era history and poor condition, when the CJTF-7 commander concluded there were no other suitable facilities available.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:09:21 +0000

I’ll buy into the surveillance of lawyers with their clients (probably without too, but i doubt that leads to much evidence). Interrogators posing as lawyers? Heh, there’s a new way to dump on lawyers.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:31:08 +0000

53 - videos? audios? from surveillance observations when they are not being interrogated.

Or some have alleged that people pretended to be their lawyers (not sure if that would be “interrogation” or not per se) and the lawyers have claimed there has been eavesdropping on the lawyers communications with the detainees and possibly surveillance in general of the lawyers in their communications with all clients. As a matter of fact, I think there are motions filed and pending on this - the lawyers requests about info being obtained from their communications with their GITMO clients or other clients.

I dunno and have no gut on that, just throwing that out as a fwiw.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:06:20 +0000

From the OIG report, p. 30: The collection of intelligence at GTMO is pursued primarily through detainee interrogations, but also through [4-8 words redacted]

Most of the redactions so far seem to relate to locations of CIA site. A couple relate to specific decision-making tactics of the FBI. I’m not getting this one.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:18:36 +0000

Well, they moot, too, when the relief requested (release from GITMO) has been granted, Sup Ct or no. A new case asking for different relief is not off the table though.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:01:32 +0000

YEARS BACK he issued that opinion. Years. And only as it was going up on appeal, this holding that the Uighurs were not enemy combatants, that the US got their act together and found someplace to send them - so that the appeal would moot.

You know things only moot out if SCOTUS says they do. In FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life on political advertising, the case was moot but they resurrected anyway because they wanted to rule on the issue.

By: bobschacht

bobschacht — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:16:24 +0000

Random thought–

I wonder what Poppy Bush thinks of what Junior has done to his once-beloved CIA?

Cheney may be an expert at government backchannels, but Poppy and his BFF Baker are no slouches at that, either.

So methinks that perhaps Poppy is worried that the mess his son is making will tarnish his own legacy, too. And I wonder what he’s doing about it.

Just askin’

Bob in HI