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John Yoo's war crimes - Glenn Greenwald
(updated below) Yet again, the ACLU has performed the function which Congress and the media are intended to perform but do not. As the result of a FOIA lawsuit the ACLU filed and then prosecuted for several years , numerous documents relating to the Bush administration's torture regime that have ...
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Facebook Status Updates for Bush Devotees, Dimwits & Dead-enders (Part II)
Rising Hegemon — ... calls. CONDOLEEZZA RICE is dreaming of peace while shopping for shoes in the middle east. PIPER PALIN is still carrying her Lunchables in her the RNC's $865 Louis Vuitton "Montorgueil GM" handbag. SEAN HANNITY is looking forward to his inauguration day address to the Nassau Community College Chapter of the College Republicans. ASHLEY TODD is discovering the joys of L'Oreal True Match Liquid Make-up in "Classic White". JOHN YOO is grateful for tenure. MICHAEL BROWN is thinking that George W. Bush has ...

Larisa Alexandrovna: What did the President know and when did he know it? Karl Rove knows...
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Otherwise, there is only one thing to conclude in all of this should Rove not be held to account for - at the very least - skipping out on his subpoena - that so long as your attorney writes you a note, you are exempt from being held to account. John Yoo did this kind of legal get-out-of-jail pass for the Bush administration when he authored justifications - illegal - for acts of torture. Fred Fielding is doing the same thing now. Since we are a democracy and none of us are above the law, either we all have to honor subpoenas or we don't. If Rove does not have to show up, then ...

Yoo must be kidding: Philly Paper Hires John Yoo as Columnist
The Political Carnival — ... for the paper. As Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Daily News puts it: The Inquirer thus handed Yoo a loud megaphone on what was once a hallowed piece of real estate in American journalism — to write on the very subjects that have now led Justice Department investigators to reportedly recommend disbarment proceedings against Yoo and has led international prosecutors as well as millions of politically engaged Americans to consider the Episcopal Academy graduate worthy of ...

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