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For the last six years, Jay Bybee has been a federal appellate court judge in San Francisco. In 2002, as head of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), he crafted the most chillingly explicit of the infamous "torture memos," giving the patina of legality and constitutionality to the [George W. Bush] administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the War On Terror.
To provide even greater legal cover to torture, Bybee went on to argue that torturers could escape prosecution no matter how much pain and suffering they caused if they hadn't explicit intent. "(T)he infliction of such pain must be the defendant's precise objective... If the defendant acted knowing that severe pain or suffering was reasonably likely to result from his actions, but no more, he would have acted only with general intent."Without the slightest recognition of his own irony, Rove blustered: "(W)e're going to turn ourselves into the moral equivalent of a Latin American country run by colonels in mirrored sunglasses... (T)hat might be fine in some little Latin American country that's run by, you know, the latest junta -- it may be the way they do things in Chicago -- but that's not the way we do things here in America."See the full content of this document
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'Torture Memos' Make Chilling Reading
For the last six years, Jay Bybee has been a federal appellate court judge in San Francisco. In 2002, as head of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), he crafted the most chillingly explicit of the infamous "torture memos," giving the ...
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