ASHCROFT DISSEMBLES TORTURE

Hearing on: From the Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogations Rules, Part V
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Just the last 25 minutes got recorded. It's rough but you will get the general idea of the tone and content. I spoke to the C-Span people who are at the convention and they told me they would probably be airing it this weekend if it was not live.

Thursday 07/17/2008 - 10:00 AM 2141 Rayburn House Office Building Full Committee

By Direction of the Chairman

Hearing Documentation Chairman's Opening Statement

John Ashcroft Former Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice

Benjamin Wittes Fellow and Research Director in Public Law Brookings Institution

Walter Dellinger Former Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel U.S. Department of Justice

HIDING IN WORDS ABOUT TORTURE

THE HEARING VIDEO

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House Committee Today on C-SPAN3 VIDEO LINK
Guantanamo Bay and Interrogation Rules
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
 

	Nadler, Jerrold	U.S. Representative, D-NY
	Schroeder, Christopher H.	Acting Assistant Attorney Gen. (1996-1997), Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel
	Yoo, John C.	Deputy Assistant Atty. General (2001-2003), Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel
	Addington, David S.	Chief of Staff, White House, Office of the Vice President

A hearing was held on the role of the administration in authorizing interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

The hearing was titled "From the Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules, Part III."

Bush officials face grilling on alleged torture Addington, Gonzales Witnessed Gitmo Interrogations In 2002; Approved Of ‘Whatever Needs To Be Done’

“It’s Addington,” he said. “He doesn’t care about the Constitution.” Powell was referring to David S. Addington, Vice-President Cheney’s chief of staff and his longtime principal legal adviser. -New Yorker

The Addington-authored Jan. 25, 2002 draft was followed, six months later, by the most infamous of the "torture memos," the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel Aug. 1, 2002 document by Jay Bybee, directed to Gonzales, which set the standards for what constituted torture, under the jaundiced interpretations of international law from the Ashcroft department -EIR

September 25, 2001: Justice Department Lawyer Asserts There Is No Limit to President’s Authority to Wage War THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM - John Yoo

Memos to White House on Geneva Convention by Yoo/Delahunty/Philbin John Choon Yoo (born 1967 in Seoul[1] [2]) is an American professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, known for his work from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel,[3] assisting the Attorney General in his function as legal advisor to President Bush and all the executive branch agencies. March 14th 2003 Yoo Memo - Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States 2003 MEMO ON INTERROGATION Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail - WaPo Drugging Detainees Is Among Techniques ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations - NYT Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed

 

Psychologists and CIA torture, the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed experience Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children - AUDIO Video from Abu Ghraib - Graphic and Mature content. Abuse or an element of a broader torture program? The "Taguba Report" On Treatment Of Abu Ghraib Prisoners In Iraq   Testimony by John Yoo to the Commitee on the Judiciary

From the Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay

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Tuesday 05/06/2008 - 9:30 AM
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Meeting to consider: To consider a resolution authorizing the Chairman of the Committee to issue subpoenas to David Addington and John C. Yoo

By Direction of the Chairman
Tuesday 05/06/2008 - 10:00 AM
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Hearing on: From the Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules, Part I

By Direction of the Chairman

Philippe Sands, QC
Professor of Law University College London
 

Barrister Matrix Chambers Marjorie Cohn
Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law
 

President National Lawyers Guild David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Partner Baker & Hostetler, LLP David J. Luban
Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center

Sam Seder Interviews Phillipe Sans:

THE DUNGEON

Torture State

September 25, 2001: Justice Department Lawyer Asserts There Is No Limit to President’s Authority to Wage War

THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM - John Yoo

Memos to White House on Geneva Convention by Yoo/Delahunty/Philbin

The Torture Memo By Judge Jay S. Bybee That Haunted Alberto Gonzales's Confirmation Hearings By JOHN W. DEAN

John Choon Yoo (born 1967 in Seoul[1] [2]) is an American professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, known for his work from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel,[3] assisting the Attorney General in his function as legal advisor to President Bush and all the executive branch agencies.

Judge Jay S. Bybee Jay S. Bybee (born October 27, 1953 in Oakland, California) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was originally nominated by President George W. Bush on May 22, 2002 and was confirmed by the United States Senate 74-19 on March 13, 2003.

March 14th 2003 Yoo Memo - Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States
2003 MEMO ON INTERROGATION Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail - WaPo
Drugging Detainees Is Among Techniques
’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations - NYT
Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed

Psychologists and CIA torture, the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed experience
Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children - AUDIO
Video from Abu Ghraib - Graphic and Mature content. Abuse or an element of a broader torture program?
The "Taguba Report" On Treatment Of Abu Ghraib Prisoners In Iraq

Infraguard - Domestic Military Deputized
Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks
President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods Chairman Conyers Announces Hearing on Yoo Torture Memo
Mukasey Distances Himself From a Memo on Searches

WAR CRIMINAL DENIALS

It really is amazing because Congress, including the Democrats, have avoided any typed of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with the fact that the President ordered war crimes. But evidence keeps on coming out - the only thing we don’t have is a group picture with a detainee attached to electrical wires. I mean every time we see more evidence we have more and more high ranking people at the scene of this crime. And what you get from this is that this was a premeditated and carefully orchestrated torture program. Not torture, but a torture program.

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. - Information Clearing House

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.

BUSH WANTS TO SURGE

What a bastard. Nuf said.