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Posted: 2006-01-09 22:26
Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children
By Philip Watts
01/08/06 'revcom.us' -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody , including by crushing that child's testicles.
This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel. What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy.
As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat"
That blur you see is my head shaking. I never envisioned the day when the torture of children would even be considered by MY government.
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