"Based on the results of our investigation, we concluded that former Deputy AAG John Yoo committed intentional professional misconduct when he violated his duty to exercise independent legal judgment and render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice."Andrew Sullivan points out:
"So, in plain English, the Justice Department's internal watchdog found that John Yoo intentionally decided not to provide independent legal judgment to the president on the question of what was legal with respect to interrogation, that he did so knowing that the law unambiguously prohibited what he said was legal, and did so with the purpose of providing a golden shield for war crimes."And it should be known from mountain top to mountain top that all the critical e-mails and evidence were destroyed by the Bush government:
After it became apparent, during the course of our review, that relevant documents were missing, we requested and were given direct access to the email and computer records of Yoo, Philbin, Bybee, and Goldsmith. However, we were told that most of Yoo's email records had been deleted and were not recoverable. Philbin's email records from July 2002 through August 5, 2002 - the time period in which the.Bybee.Memo was completed and the Classified Bybee Memo (discussed below) was created - had also been deleted and were reportedly not recoverable. Although we were initially advised that Goldsmith's records had been deleted, we were later told that they had been recovered and we were given access to them.From the videotapes of the CIA waterboarding sessions to the last taped interrogation session of Jose Padilla to the surveillance videos of the Gitmo "suicides", they were all destroyed by Bush and Cheney to cover up their bloody hands. "Out, damned spot; out I say”
Where is the outrage over that? Libertarians and Conservatives I can't hear you.
Source: Daily Dish
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