Originally published February 13 2006
John Yoo publicly argues that the President can torture children
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
John Yoo, a key architect in post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy, has said that there is no law to keep the President from ordering the torture of a child. Yoo was responding to a debate question.
John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody -- including by crushing that child's testicles.
This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.
As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.
It has now come out Yoo also had a hand in providing legal reasoning for the President to conduct unauthorized wiretaps of U.S. citizens.
This part of the exchange during the debate with Doug Cassel, reveals the logic of Yoo's theories, adopted by the Administration as bedrock principles, in the real world.
As David Cole puts it, "Yoo reasoned that because the Constitution makes the President the 'Commander-in-Chief,' no law can restrict the actions he may take in pursuit of war.
What is the position of the Bush Administration on the torture of children, since one of its most influential legal architects is advocating the President's right to order the crushing of a child's testicles?
It is ironic that just prior to arguing the President's legal right to torture children, John Yoo was defensive about the Bush administration policies, based on his legal memo's, being equated to those during Nazi Germany.
Second, if you're trying to equate the Bush Administration to Nazi officials who committed atrocities in the holocaust, I completely reject that too...I think to equate Nazi Germany to the Bush Administration is irresponsible."
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