YO! Alberto! Is your sphincter all aquiver?

[hootinholler]

Yes! I'm talking to you torture-boy. Remember those little old memos you wrote to help Rumsfield justify torture? Well, you know what? I do.

Was it an error in judgment? I think not, for behold the traitorous monstrosity that returns to your eye from the mirror. Did you leave enough wiggle room in those memos such that you are not liable you architect of misery? You pale Marquis De Sade impersonator, you wretched, bilious waste of humanity.

Those voices you paid lip service to while drafting the cover? That was your conscience and it even made itself heard in those memos, didn't it? Wasn't one of your goals to separate the applicability of the Geneva Treaties from this action?

Has it puckered yet? Are you having an aw shit moment? Did you have to go check your tightie whities when you got the news?

Will the ministry of propaganda be able to keep the idea that the USSC has just declared that the treatment of prisoners held in G'tmo and indirectly Abu Grhaib as well, are WAR CRIMES?

I know my sphincter is all aquiver, but because I have had my hope strengthened that I will see you bread-hating-shit-sandwich-eating criminals at least in Leavenworth.

-Holler

edit for posessive/plurality error

[TomInTib]

1. Holler out!, now!

Tell it, Brother!

Tell it!

[Lowell]

2. Lets hope no one else retires from SCOTUS

We could end up with that wiesel on the bench with the other nazis this admin put there.

[louis-t]

4. Pray Stevens lives at least 2 more years.

He's 86.

[lonestarnot]

16. Praying believe me!

[louis-t]

23. Nice sig line.

[lonestarnot]

24. You too louis-t

[Atman]

3. What a shitty attorney he is. He gave his client very, very bad advice

He told his boss that everything would be cool. He obviously is in way over his head. He was a half-assed personal attorney, but he is a total abject failure as a high-level attorney for the government. Fire his ass now George. He's embarrassed you in front of the world!

[hootinholler]

8. He laid it out in those memos...

If the court holds Geneva applies, we're screwed, to paraphrase, of course.

-Hoot

[TahitiNut]

12. His job is to shit on the law and create specious bastardizations of law

... as cover for the reich. He's a toady. He's a total and complete sell-out with less integrity than a dung beetle.
I think the OP was too kind. Alberto should be required to spend the rest of his life cleaning toilets with his tongue at Leavenworth.

[hootinholler]

13. Yes, but, I've mellowed in my old age...

I almost went in with him on the bottom of a sodomite pyramid.

-Hoot

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. Great post!

[myrna minx]

6. Oooo good post. n/t

[hootinholler]

7. Hmmm, great post, great post, no recs?

Oh, well. I feel better anyway.

-Hoot

[CatWoman]

9. ok,

added mine :D

[hootinholler]

11. Thanks Hon. n/t

[suffragette]

10. Here's a K&R for ya, Hoot

[hootinholler]

20. Thanks you too! n/t

[Senator]

14. Yoo Hoo, Yes You Too Yoo! -- The "Other" Alberto (Mora) - USNavy Counsel

Remember him? You All Were Put On Notice.

On February 6th, Mora invited Yoo to his office, in the Pentagon, to discuss the opinion. Mora asked him, “Are you saying the President has the authority to order torture?”

“Yes,” Yoo replied.

“I don’t think so,” Mora said.

“I’m not talking policy,” Yoo said. “I’m just talking about the law.”

“Well, where are we going to have the policy discussion, then?” Mora asked.

Mora wrote that Yoo replied that he didn’t know; maybe, he suggested, it would take place inside the Pentagon, where the defense-policy experts were. (Yoo said that he recalled discussing only how the policy issues should be debated, and where. Torture, he said, was not an option under consideration.)

But Mora knew that there would be no such discussion; as the Administration saw it, the question would be settled by Yoo’s opinion.

...

This standard had been in effect for fifty years, and all members of the U.S. armed services were trained to follow it. One by one, the military officers argued for returning the U.S. to what they called the high ground. But two people opposed it. One was Stephen Cambone, the under-secretary of defense for intelligence; the other was Haynes. They argued that the articulated standard would limit America’s “flexibility.” It also might expose Administration officials to charges of war crimes: if Common Article Three became the standard for treatment, then it might become a crime to violate it. Their opposition was enough to scuttle the proposal.

In exasperation, according to another participant, Mora said that whether the Pentagon enshrined it as official policy or not, the Geneva conventions were already written into both U.S. and international law. Any grave breach of them, at home or abroad, was classified as a war crime. To emphasize his position, he took out a copy of the text of U.S. Code 18.2441, the War Crimes Act, which forbids the violation of Common Article Three, and read from it. The point, Mora told me, was that “it’s a statute. It exists—we’re not free to disregard it. We’re bound by it. It’s been adopted by the Congress. And we’re not the only interpreters of it. Other nations could have U.S. officials arrested.”

We can avoid all that messy "foreign rendition" by following a simple formula:

Censure >> Impeach >> Remove >> Prosecute >> Repeat

Until all members and appointees of this never-elected, never-legitimate regime are gone.

Some of them to the Hague.

It is our ONLY moral, patriotic option.

--

[hootinholler]

17. Round them all up! n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

15. You forgot to give David Addington the credit due him for the

torture thing. He's the one who called the Geneva Convention "Quaint." And Cheney rewarded Addington with Scooter's job.

Cheney and Rummy need to be held to account too.

[hootinholler]

19. From the top down.

Pack them off to Leavenworth.

-Hoot

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Ahem, but he has no sphincter. That shit just keeps collecting.

Explains all the crap he spews about protecting the rights of Americans.

[Justice Is Comin]

21. Hell, now I guess we'll have to honor the Geneva Convention when it

comes their turn.

[hootinholler]

22. Yes, maybe we need a sauce for the goose ammendment? n/t