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harpers.org - 1/30/2009
Yoo for the Defense—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
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Scott Horton John Yoo is at it again. In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal , the indefatigable advocate of crushing the testicles of small children to extract actionable intelligence launches a full frontal attack on President Obama. What’s Obama’s offense? He banned torture. Of course, every U.S. ...

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  John Yoo: Justice Approacheth

ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society:  Former DOJ Lawyer Yoo Forming Defense of Torture Memos

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  Scott Horton Keeps Us Up-to-Date on Some of the Bush Administration's Crimes

Firedoglake:  Conason’s Lost Truth About Reconciliation

harpers.org - 2/2/2009
SCOTT HORTON—Renditions Buffoonery
— harpers.org — In a breathless piece of reporting in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, we are told that Barack Obama “left intact” a “controversial counter-terrorism tool” called renditions. Moreover, the Times states, quoting unnamed “current and former U.S. ... (more) SCOTT HORTON—Renditions Buffoonery

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politico.com - 1/28/2009
Obama lawyers set to defend Yoo
— politico.com — Former Bush Justice official John Yoo was the chief author of the so-called torture memos. (more) Obama lawyers set to defend Yoo

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/30/2009
John Yoo: Justice Approacheth
— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — Scott Horton takes another look at the bizarre op-ed the war criminal just penned for the WSJ: I???ve followed John Yoo and his writings with some care for a while now, and I think I finally understand what this is about. Namely, a pending probe ... (more) John Yoo: Justice Approacheth

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John Yoo: Justice Approacheth
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Scott Horton takes another look at the bizarre op-ed the war criminal just penned for the WSJ: I???ve followed John Yoo and his writings with some care for a while now, and I think I finally understand what this is about. Namely, a pending probe by the Justice Department???s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is looking at serious ethical issues surrounding the issuance of Yoo???s legal opinions. But the OPR probe is far from Yoo???s only or even most pressing worry. The likelihood that he will face a criminal probe and then possibly prosecution ...

Former DOJ Lawyer Yoo Forming Defense of Torture Memos
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... Sullivan notes a piece by Harper’s Scott Horton examining Yoo’s ongoing defense of his legal analysis, widely condemned by lawyers and academics as seriously flawed, underpinning his torture memos. Horton, a Harper’s contributing editor, writes that he believes Yoo is struggling to shield himself from potential criminal liability for his legal work, grasping at the most attractive appearing defense: ...

Scott Horton Keeps Us Up-to-Date on Some of the Bush Administration's Crimes
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Yoo for the Defense—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine): Obama, Yoo says, has put the safety of Americans on the line: his torture ban will “seriously handicap our intelligence agencies from preventing future terrorist attacks.” Never mind, of course, that no evidence has been advanced of a single instance in which the use of torture produced intelligence that prevented a future terrorist attack, while detailed and specific evidence has now been put forward that torture produced bad intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Those are irritating details ...

Conason’s Lost Truth About Reconciliation
Firedoglake — ... The main protagonists of the Bush/Cheney regime effectively reverse engineered our laws and Constitution in order to gut them of all meaning and effect, so that they could impose their demented whims of dominance and submission on the nation and the world. Their crimes are more than the violence of man on man that hold forth in truth and reconciliation commissions; the crimes of Bush and Cheney rip at the very heart of who and what we are, and were founded to be, as a Constitutiional democracy. ...

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The Rendition Canard, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/3/2009 — Scott Horton : In the course of the last week we’ve seen a steady stream of efforts designed to show that Obama is continuing the counterterrorism programs that he previously labeled as abusive and promised to shut down. These stories are regularly ...
Even though the years won't be kind — The Sideshow
Scott Horton notes that The Los Angeles Times got it completely wrong about extraordinary renditions , apparently because they don't know the difference between (a) kidnapping people in order to bring them to trial in the civilian legal system and (b) kidnapping people and taking them to other ...
Andrew Sullivan still can’t handle the truth on Obama renditions — Patterico's Pontifications
Andrew Sullivan must have been miffed by the pantsing he took over his slavish defense of Pres. Obama’s expanded renditions policy, as he now resorts to quoting Scott Horton (someone who is almost as fond of conspiracy theories as Sully himself ): There are two fundamental distinctions ...
LA Times 'Punked': Obama NOT Continuing Bush 'Extraordinary Rendition' Program — The BRAD BLOG
From Scott Horton at Harper's ... In a breathless piece of reporting in the Sunday Los Angeles Times , we are told that Barack Obama “left intact” a “controversial counter-terrorism tool” called renditions. Moreover, the Times states, quoting unnamed “current and former U.S. intelligence ...
War As Videogame — The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
It's coming. Scott Horton interviews P. W. Singer about his new book, Wired For War : There are all sorts of ripple effects that we are just starting to be aware of, and again, these are already happening with the first generation of these systems, the Model T Fords compared to what is coming. ...
Around the web — The Sideshow
I want to link to yesterday's Democracy Now , where Amy Goodman talked to Scott Horton and others about the Karl Rove conspiracies involving US Attorneys, Gov. Siegelman, and so on, and to Bernie Sanders the stimulus package, but they appear to have screwed up their main link to the relevant ...
Bill Kristol's Op-Ed Column: The New York Times's Gain is the Washington Post's Loss — Hit & Run
After a year, neocon king Bill Kristol gets booted from his weekly column at the New York Times , and returns for a monthly one at the Washington Post . While the Times' Andrew Rosenthal says the decision for Kristol to leave the paper was mutual, Scott Horton at the Daily Beast says it was a ...