Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be ‘Massacred’
Michael Isikoff - February 19, 2010
The chief author of the Bush administration’s “torture memo” told Justice Department investigators that the president’s war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be “massacred,” according to a report released Friday night by the Office of Professional Responsibility.
The views of former Justice lawyer John Yoo were deemed to be so extreme and out of step with legal precedents that they prompted the Justice Department’s internal watchdog office to conclude last year that he committed “intentional professional misconduct” when he advised the CIA it could proceed with waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques against Al Qaeda suspects.
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March 14th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Uh, ever heard of WWII? Massacre was pretty much what resulted from fire-bombing and atom bombing. Killing each and every person intentionally instead of taking prisoners when possible would be a different matter, of course.
However, I’m no nit-picker when it comes to war. . . it is win the war or submit/die. There should be no pre-conditions on what we do to defend ourselves in the extremity.
March 14th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
It seems like common sense to have certain limits that people should not cross in whatever it is they undertake. (Pulling off a Vlad the impaler has been a no-no ever since). Even the mob has rules that factions abide by - the street in general.