we should remember to not get ourselves all excited about the prospect of John Yoo being compelled to testify any time soon. I’d guess it would be a good two years at the earliest before we get to that point.

You mean we might get to spend a year or so watching W’s best lawyers testify about why it’s okay to torture American citizens? While Republicans run national campaigns on “law and order” and “family values” and “national security,” and Cheney snarls in the background?

Gotta go invest in popcorn.

first, again the quote you posted from the federalist papers;

[War] will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. [The Federalist No. 8, at 44 (Alexander Hamilton) (E.H. Scott ed., 1898).]

which was great to read but then judge white’s anotation is simple elquence defined;

The issues raised by this case embody that same tension –
between the requirements of war and the defense of the very freedoms that war seeks to protect.

wow

powerfull stuff right there

What a great post.

Thanks

A criminal case is this Christmas? I wonder if Yoo will flip to save his hide?

unless he has been given inside guarantees, then I gaurantee a flip from yoo

I think Padilla was implicated in some “intelligence” gathered with EIT with one of the Big Fish, Zabudayah???

not sure. but Padilla already had a US rap sheet, so all the better for creepy torture promoters to test these new found powers on a US citizen.

Indeed, the March 2003 memorandum reflects that he had consulted and secured non-prosecution assurances from the Criminal Division headed by Michael Chertoff.

Maybe a RICO case against the entire Bush Justice Dept, White House Lawyers, Cheney and Bush?