John Yoo interview

Via Jeralyn

The Orange County Register yesterday interviewed John Yoo. Of all the questions I might have for him, what’s on his iPhone would not be one. Nor do I care that he’s been getting in shape by going to the same gym as Kobe Bryant.

As for whether he has any regrets about the torture memos he authored, he mentions one: that they were published. Not because of their content, but he would have “polished them differently.” He adds, ” I don’t think I would have made the basic decisions differently.”

This interview is a joke.

To which commenter cpiva responds:

oh jeralyn, i must vigorously disagree!

this one response made the whole interview worthwhile:

but he would have “polished them differently.” He adds, ” I don’t think I would have made the basic decisions differently.”

from the horse’s mouth. no hesitation, no remorse. he is now firmly estopped from claiming later that he was misinterpreted, that the memo’s were merely unedited drafts, not meant as the final product.

he is, for all time, displayed as the freakish descendent of nazi germany’s greatest legal theorists; the ones who legally justified the “final solution”, and all the prior depradations of german law.

he is kin to the czar’s counselors; lenin & stalin’s advisors. nixon’s rotting corpse is kicking itself, for not having this guy on his legal staff.

he is the ABA’s worst nightmare; he provides substance for every bad lawyer joke since plato. shakespeare knew him, when he made the lawyer crack in Henry V.

in short, mr. yoo has nowhere to hide, no basis for libel or defamation suit, ever. with that, he also takes down the entire bush administration, laying bare bush’s truest desire: to become the first american emperor.

really, what more could you ask for in an interview?

Yoo represents everything that was wrong with the Bush administration. I hope cpinva is right.