Jose Padilla sues John Yoo
You may remember John Yoo from this post I did on 12/29/05. John Yoo’s: Torture on a Half Shell
Listen to the madness of another one of Cheney's henchmen:
Convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla sued a key architect of the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Friday, claiming the official's legal arguments led to Padilla's alleged mistreatment and illegal detention at a Navy brig.
The lawsuit claims that John Yoo, a former senior Justice Department official, wrote several legal memos that led President Bush to designate Padilla as an enemy combatant shortly after the U.S. citizen was arrested in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on suspicion of involvement in an al-Qaida plot.
The alleged mistreatment included forced hooding, deprivation of light and sleep, extreme heat and cold, stress positions, threats of death, use of drugs and introduction of odors into his cell. Padilla used these same claims in an attempt to be declared mentally incompetent to stand trial in Miami, but a federal judge rejected the attempt...read on
We used the same methods of torture on him that Naomi Klein documents in "The Shock Doctrine."
Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty
Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.
As Arthur Silber states very clearly in his excellent piece on torture:
...it’s hardly surprising, because of the kind of men who were central to the administration’s original decision to embrace torture as a legitimate weapon in its intentionally impossible-to-define “War on Terror. One of those men was John Yoo.”
Here's what Yoo wrote back on 9/25/01. And he actually has a job at UC Berkeley.
How this putz has a teaching job at a law school is just beyond pathetic, he should be on trial at he Hague with Dumbya and his whole crew.
Someone should tie electrodes to this motherfucker's testicles, blast 'em with 50,000 volts and then smash 'em with a hammer.
Maybe then he'll realize torture is wrong!
John Yoo: Just another Bushite whose only interest in the principles of justice, freedom, and democracy, is how to get around them. American traitors the lot of them.
Justice would be Yoo having to make weekly payments to Padilla for the rest of his life.
"...torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child..."
I'm sure the above sentence is on a hanging like a banner on the wall in some basement in Afghanistan or Iraq, where people are being trained to be suicide bombers.
Good! The John Woos of the country have done much greater harm to the Constitution and our Republic than a thousand wanna be jihadists.
And his assertion that no law prohibits this? How bout regular fuckin law?
Fuck Yoo!
Prediction:this lawsuit will go nowhere, our judiciary has been hijacked by radical right wingnut jackasses.
Filthy Harry @ 5:
Yeah these NEOCONs are a bunch a satanic Nazis. In fact they are worse than nazis. Find out what happend in Abu Ghirab. Children raped anally and vaginally with objects dipped in battery acid. We've got to take this country back from this evil.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4894033/
a. Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;
b. Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;
c. Pouring cold water on naked detainees;
d. Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;
e. Threatening male detainees with rape;
f. Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell;
g. Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.
h. Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
(T)he intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:
a. Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;
b. Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c. Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;
d. Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;
e. Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear;
f. Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;
g. Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;
h. Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;
i. Writing “I am a Rapest” (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;
j. Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;
k. A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;
l. Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;
m. Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.
Torture is a war crime, and the son-of-a-bitch sitting in the White House calls himself a "war president".
Do the math, world.
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All I hear about is "CHANGE" in the democratic campaign. Until these war criminals like John Yoo are put on trial in an international court (and not working at so-called respected Universities) -- "change" is just lip-service.
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SckofFknLiarz @ 10:
Just remember: they're doing all of this to protect us! We're torturing them over there so they don't torture us over here!
Is there no authority to indict the criminals who've hijacked our government and our country these past 7 years?!!!
I'd gladly chip in for one-way tickets to the Hague for Busholini and the rest of his cabal!!!
on berkeley... stripping tenure from someone for unpopular or incorrect opinions about actions is a bad, bad, bad idea. yeah, the guy's an asswipe, but the argument can come back to bite people with whom you do agree.
now if he's convicted of a relevant crime, that's a whole different story.
Wow. Every time I think I can't imagine these guys being any worse than I already believe them to be, they lower the bar. Crushing a child's testicles might be ok if the President thinks he needs to do it? Really?
Of all the people in the Bush Administration, Yoo might just be at the top of the list of those who should be brought up on charges of treason. There is simply no excuse for this kind of open rebellion against the United States, and anyone who thinks that that's not what Yoo's doing here should be strung up right alongside him. There is no punishment vile enough to be appropriate for what this man has done.
It is with pliable hacks like Yoo that the Nazi's and Fascist dictatorships write their "Reichsbürgergesetz" and other licenses to presecute. The son of a bitch ought to be given one of the Nuremburg jail cells where they kept his intellectual ancestors, right next to the gallows. Come to think of it, I'll pay his airfare over there, one way.
Mr. Yoo would've made a very fine member of the SS. He's got exactly the mentality they were looking for.
In order for police to be able to use a taser, they must go through the process of having it used on them, so they know what it feels like. I think the same should apply to all of these Bush Admin chucklefucks who want to approve torture. Stick Yoo in a room for a few years, beat the hell out of him, force him through all sorts of sensory deprivation techniques, waterboard him, and then ask him if he planned 9/11.
John Yoo is batsh*t nuts, and when he gets sentenced to a cave for twenty years, I want to bid on all the guano he's gonna leave behind when he gets out.
Isn't about time for you to publish another biased Catholic hating story? Its been a while.
Woo has been on my list of those that need to be charged with capital crimes for some time now.
War Criminals like this need to have their day in court before we hang them.
They'll even get lawyers.
Yoo I mean!
Makes ya almost sick to be part of a nation that has done such despicable acts.
Yoo is a war criminal and should be tried and convicted.
-G
Steven @ 20:
Isn't it about time for you to go shove a falafel up your ass? It's been an hour.
Go Bears!!!!!!!!
This is ot but it's gonna be talked about. Today Billo took his camera crew to a place where Obama was speaking. They set up their camera and some guy stood right in front of it. So they moved the camera and the guy moved in front of it again. According to BillO, he "gently removed the man" and "may have called him a son of a bitch". Fox news said they heard that Obama's secret service people had to remove Billo. Billo denies the secret service was involved. He is going to show what their camera captured tomorrow night on his show. Guess that might leave some time for cutting and splicing, if the whole thing wasn't staged from the beginning. I would put nothing past him.
As for Yoo, he's one of the most evil bastards on earth. Put one of his testicles on a board and aim at it with a big hammer. You know damned well he would cry like a baby. You just know he would.
Terrible @ 25:
Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
and here is yoo, teaching another generation of lawyers what law means to him instead of what itmeans to the majority.
betch he's related to kim il jung jr..
Oh yes some of us have not forgotten Mr. Yoo
Remember Everything~Forget Nothing
The sad irony is to believe in shit like this you have no balls anyway. Goddamn cowards: Here! Take my morals, constitution and everything important about being an American, just don't make me scared about terrorists!
Excuse me, but I guess you people didn't hear mc chimp say: "We do not torture!"...(with a straight face).....no wonder he drinks a lot.
Dennis Kucinich just said on C-span that he would indict both Bush and Cheney for taking America to war on false pretenses if he was elect president
Go Dennis.
John Yoo gave an interview to PBS and just as well gave the Law Suit a slam dunk. He was so proud of his torture idea and even admitted it broke the Geneva Rules. As he said it was 9/11 and the American people that helped his torture program work so well. He relied on the GOP support that Bush/Cheney could break any law made by the US or UN.
He even thought of the torture for woman and children to make others talk. He was so proud even the President gave his high points and directed him to a job when he was finished. In time Americans will see generations of children who remember the horror and torture done by the United States of America as set down my John Yoo. Bush will not take the fall for this he will put it on John Yoo. Now Mr. Yoo knows alot about torture as he said he looked into the history of the pass to come up with his program. If Americans
hated the torture that Hitler did to the Jews this is worse.
Americans can stand proud along with Mr. Yoo as we have now made History as did Hitler.
When the real truth all of the truth comes out about what this Administration has been doing in the name of the USA in the pass 7 years, we will not recognize this country anymore. As I listen to the GOP candidates who want to follow the current Administrations policies it's scary to know just how blind Americans have been to the truth. We not only kill and torture the Middle East people we kill and torture our own soldiers if they are against the Bush/Cheney policy.
Yoohoo should be in prison as we speak. It amazes me that Berkeley would hire this clown! He started the Stasi in the US!
not stupid @ 33:
and every god damned one of them!!!!!!!!
Padilla's going to need some good, sleazy, crooked lawyers to fight Yoo on his terms. He better get Starr and Bennett as a team, and let out some enforcement contracts with 'Da Boys' on Mulberry Street. Guili can probably help him there, as well as putting the 'fix' on the judge.
Drudge can probably dig up lots of dirt on Yoo, and HuffPo can threaten to publish it. That ought to even the odds, against Yoo and Gonzo and The Dummy.
I love the way you guys point to her book as the be all end all...
pissed off patricia @ 27:
Way to go, PoP, you have a connection with the folks who castrated Yoo, and can get one of his testicles?
not stupid @ 33:
And he is the ONLY candidate that stands for 'real' change. The same could be said for Ron Paul, but I don't think us progressives would like his platform on a lot of issues.
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not stupid @ 33:
I'm almost positive that presidents are exempt from being on grand juries and I sure as heck don't want the Justice Dept to continue to be run by the president, no matter which party wins. In other words, while I might agree with goal, I'm not impressed by Kucinich making promises that he should not be able to keep. It's similar to Edwards' silly promise to cut the insurance of those in congress. I get the idea, but the hyperbole doesn't help.
Good! Yoo is a complete scumbag. His "legal" opinions have often been in direct opposition to the law and founding documents. In one of his recent pieces for NPR, he offered nothing but disingenuous scare tactic rhetoric, effectively arguing that upholding the rule of law was a bad thing.
There are many rule-of-law conservatives among the JAGs, but Yoo is a hard-core authoritarian and/or a willing hack. He, Addington, Gonzales, Cheney and Bush (and many other players in the Cheney "cabal") are essentially monarchists.
STOP George @ 12:
I had a dream about Yoo. Four Apache indians go to the Farm (Stanford), kidnap him during a coffee break from his teaching a law school class in Constitutional Law (a little humor here - ConLaw, heh heh heh), and take him to Arizona where they skin him, coat him with honey, tie him to an ant hill, and wait until he admits he planned
9/11. Then, I woke up - darn, just when it was getting to the good parts. Well, at least I was still dreaming when they skinned him. Wow, bet that hurt, but no organ failure so Yoo probably didn't mind too much.
Vic @ 1:
Yet at BERKELEY, I think! I am glad Padilla is able to pull this move because I thought that it was all over for him. It's kind of the reverse of what the Goldman and Brown families did to O.J. Simpson, isn't it? Or will the Cheney/Bush administrations argue that Padilla has no right to sue as a convicted felon? Let his mother do it in that case.
naschkatze @ 45:
Rufus @ 44:
I assume that you're doing your laundry today.
Yes, think you're right -- he teaches at UC Berkeley. Well, my dream was about 30 miles off, but my heart was in the right place.
Yoo sleeps restlessly I bet. Scumbag. Traitor. Anti-American he is.
Good luck, he doesn't have a case.
The person he SHOULD sue is George Bush...
not stupid @ 33:
It's a nice quote, but I'm curious what law DK believes that was broken by Bush and Cheney doing that?
George Bush is tough to sue. He has about 83,000 lawyers at the DOJ who stand ready to defend him all the way to the Supreme Court (which he packed if you didn't notice).
Good for Padilla. Yoo deserves it.
I thought Jo-se Pa-dilla was denied any legal representation in the US! What's all this about suing? (Terrorist, 9/11, terrorist, 9/11, terrorist..)
-George W. Douche
Swashbuckler @ 51:
Well, there was an awful lot of Conspiracy and Obstruction of Congress involved, given the way underlings were apparently fed false information and directed to lie in their Congressional testimony. Still, as far as criminal charges go--as opposed to impeachment--there are more fruitful grounds for indicting Cheney and Bush.
Rufus @ 52:
So I guess that, just like Sara Taylor, they've taken an oath to defend President Bush, not the Constitution. Explains a lot.
Rufus @ 52:
Ah, so they've taken after Sara Taylor. That explains much.
YES!!! Finally! These are the people they need to go after. The John Yoos, David Addingtons, Paul Wolfowitzi, Karl Roves... going after these guys should be far easier than impeachment; I've been wondering what the hold up was.
I'm sure Monica Goodling is a idiot, and Larry Craig's hypocrisy is laughable... but it is the behind the scenes politicos like (insert Nazi top officials reference here) that are doing the most damage.
These people should be locked up, but only after a complete public expose of their deeds and the results with all the humiliation and verbal evisceration that such would inevitably accord.
I got a box of eggs I'll set in the sun starting today... can't wait to see you in the stocks, "Mister" Yoo!
Rufus @ 52:
You're correct that the chances of conviction on some of these people are slim to none with none more than likely the winner everytime. But, these people (not counting Bush until he's out of office) aren't going to represent themselves so each and every lawsuit is going to cost them money. More than anything else these people are about money. Other than jail time having them lose money is the worst thing they can possibly imagine. They probably get the shakes each and every time they have to spend a dime so paying a lawyer will probably cause heart attacks.
I'm just tired of seeing every one of these cowards get off scott free. People go to jail for things far far less offensive to this country than what Bush and his cronies have done. I hope that little Ms. Pelosi is proud of herself for protecting her BFF Georgie and Dickie by taking impeachment off her table.
Spicegal @ 53:
Puh-lease! such bad English. Surely you meant "You deserve it." No, no, wait, "Youse deserves it", no, no wait a sec, "Y'all deserve it." There now it's correct.
John Yoo is the worst of the unitary executive theorists. He will do anything to satisfy his Addingtonist blackshirt bosses
Rob J @ 55:
Conspiring isn't a crime unless it's conspiring too commit a crime.
And you are certainly correct that there are more fruitful grounds for criminal indictments.
Empty wheel over at Firedoglake is the queen on this issue and so many others,
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
If anyone deserves to burn in the deepest pit in Hell, it is John Yoo. He knows his legal opinions are crap, but everyone is too afraid of the Bush Crime Family and Terrorism to do anything about it. He would have personally escorted the Japanese to the West Coast internment camp during WWII. John Yoo is a sociopath in a suit.
Conspiracy is two or more agreeing to commit an illegal act or a legal act in an illegal manner. Cannot be a thought crime, as it requires an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. But, surely, George and Dick can be fit into that definition somewhere/somehow.
Swashbuckler @ 62:
Rufus @ 65:
Well, I was thinking of conspiracy to obstruct Congress for those cases where you couldn't prove that the lies were actually believed. I should have added in subornation of perjury as another related criminal charge that could be brought.
Still, FISA violations and torture are where I'd look first for Bush/Cheney indictments. We've got actual admissions on national television to support those indictments.
moondancer @ 4:
I second that one!
Doesn't John Yoo have a job ready for him at Backwater's new privatized Department of Justus?
In Soviet Russia.....
Padilla sues Yoo!
Anthony Damiani @ 69:
My God. Brilliant!
Is it just me or does John Yoo bear more than a passing resemblance to Newman the mailman from Seinfeld? Same scheming smirk...
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