Monday, April 20, 2009

Impeaching Bybee

Just me thinking, but you shouldn't be allowed to be a federal judge when you were writing the 'how to torture and get away with it' memos in a previous job.
In one of the more nauseating passages, Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face. He praised the Central Intelligence Agency for having doctors ready to perform an emergency tracheotomy if necessary.

Two other things.

1. We told the Nazis at Nuremberg that 'just following orders' was BS.
2. Good thing this wasn't something serious like a BJ or there would be all sorts of hearings, investigations, independent prosecutors and impeachment proceedings.

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