re: #142 Gus 802

Here you go. This is from Salon magazine:

“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?”

“No treaty,” replied John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who wrote the crucial memos justifying President Bush’s policies on torture, “war on terror” detainees and domestic surveillance without warrants. Yoo made these assertions at a public debate in December in Chicago, where he also espoused the radical notion of the “unitary executive” — the idea that the president as commander in chief is the sole judge of the law, unbound by hindrances such as the Geneva Conventions, and possesses inherent authority to subordinate independent government agencies to his fiat. This concept is the cornerstone of the Bush legal doctrine.

Ah, ok. He’s talking about international treaties. Also their caricature of unitary executive shows strong sings of BDS. There are serious and real issues to debate on this topic but it’s just silly to claim the evil Bush regime was planning to crush children’s testicles.