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I suspect John Yoo, a Professor at Berkeley Law School, and one of the drafters of the memos according the various media sources that sanctioned the torture is calling his own lawyer on this one. Others are likely doing the same including now federal judge, the Honorable Jay S. Bybee, who was likewise in the middle of what is now officially "Torture-gate." No one (your writer included) expected this to happen so fast even though it is still unclear what any of this means. On the one hand, there is Mr. Obama's tacit support for the men and women working at the C.I.A. which is expected, but then there are his words today which still are all over the place. All of this is a stumble for Mr. Obama. The right thing to do from the beginning was to rule out nothing. Don't do a Nancy Pelosi who famously ruled out impeachment. Even if you are for not going forward, you have an obligation to allow the process to work. You state that we are a nation of laws, well, lets be a nation of laws. Conduct a probe, an inquiry, or whatever it is called. Those who knowingly did wrong, damaged the democratic process. They have to know that most of us give a damn. Anything short of that would be irresponsible. |
The day after President Barack Obama assured the line workers at the C.I.A. that they didn't have anything to worry about, he backtracked a bit on the issue of the rule of law and the torture of individuals captured during the war on terror under the Bush administration. It was a startling rev