Yoo’s Memo Hints at Bush’s Secrets
Posted by Anders den april 6, 2008
Jason Leopold, Consortiumnews.com: Yoo’s Memo Hints at Bush’s Secrets
In a just-declassified 2003 memo, Justice Department lawyer John Yoo said George W. Bush could order abuse of captives to extract information. But one provocative footnote said Bush also could ignore constitutional rights while undertaking domestic military operations.
The Pentagon’s declassification of a five-year-old memo authorizing military interrogators to use brutal methods to extract information from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay sheds new light into the dark corners of the Bush administration’s legal theories that put the President and his subordinates beyond domestic and international law. . . .
