Thanks.

Post #319,951 by Another Scott 1/12/10 9:24:31 PM 1/12/10 9:50:03 PM Reply	Thanks. I spent the ~25 minutes to watch it. Stewart came very close to asking the important questions, but something always came up before Yoo had to give a full answer. :-( It was infuriating to hear Yoo talk about the problem that 'there hadn't been a decision on what came between what was legal and what was torture.' That's BS. Stewart called him on it (there's the Army Field Manual and similar things, the Geneva Conventions, US law, prosecutions of people that committed torture in the past, etc., etc.), but Yoo slithered away. His rationalization that he was tasked to find what space existed between what was permitted and what was torture was nonsensical. As Stewart said, several times, in each case Yoo sided with the argument that increased Bush's power - even if treaties, laws, and 210+ years of history said otherwise. His attempt to portray himself as a underling trying to protect the country was terribly disingenuous. Stewart put up a good effort, but was reminiscent of his interview of Betsy McCaughey - http://www.huffingto...-ca_n_264970.html - and painful to watch. I guess a consolation is that I wouldn't expect that the book will sell very well... ;-) Thanks again. [edit:] A few other views: Andrew Sullivan - http://andrewsulliva...-that-theory.html Adam Serwer - http://www.prospect....jon_stewart_fails Spencer Ackerman - http://washingtonind...of-the-daily-show Cheers, Scott. (Who expects that Yoo isn't out of the woods yet...) Edited by Another Scott Jan. 12, 2010, 09:50:03 PM EST Expand All History
Post #319,961 by jake123 1/12/10 11:42:32 PM Reply	My take is Yoo should not be planning any travel outside the U.S. ever again.
Post #319,995 by Ashton 1/14/10 4:01:18 AM Reply	Didn't read the reviews.. But I go with the responder at http://www.prospect....jon_stewart_fails There's something just a bit depression about having to hope that a comedian on a comedy show (on a comedy network) - even a bright, politically attuned, quick-on-his-feet comedian - is going to pick up the slack following nine years of the MSM's failure to competently address the same issues. To Stewart's credit, he has managed to hold some famous feet to the fire following similar MSM failures, and he's nobody's monkey. ( http://politicalhumo...wartcrossfire.htm ) Posted by: Aaron \| January 12, 2010 2:29 PM Stewart can't become Glenn Greenwald-for-a-Day. He adequately responded with the bemused body language appropriate to the craven spin of this empty suit. Which is what I meant re the pseudo-science of all such bloviations [just cite YAN 'precedent candidate' whenever an idiotic argument has been rebutted.] There is no end.. to such excursion ... except the judge pronouncing an end, ex cathedra. Hey, Scalia smiles a lot too, while deconstructing everything south of the Golden Rule; Yoo doesn't smile actually -- it's a smarl (or a snile), oft seen on actual inmates in mental confinement. Have encountered a few Yoos, in the day.. deem them akin to a mad dog; there's no cure for this form of rabies -- just euthanasia. And that's OK: such a one is orthogonal to any scale of tolerance one might attempt to define. They are scientifically-Evil by definition (no religious versions need apply -- they will be as inane as Yoo himself is, when employing law-speak.) Can only hope that UC acquires some nads and fails to renew his contract; if they let the sucker attain tenure, Murica is more fucked than I imagine. And I think it's pretty-FUCKED in myriad ways. It's about time for that revolution the FFs (founding..) spoke of -- Tom Paine and Jefferson IIRC -- as being 'a good thing, periodically'. Such as we are in 2010, our continued existence is ~ indefensible. We excel nowadays only in the home-growing of audiences for demagogues. And creation of vacuous, predictable simple-minded entertainments, designed only as fillers in between more ads. (The drug-use rate alone demonstrates the extremes to which people will go, to escape the zeitgeist and the deadly daily drone of puerile nonsense which fills the airwaves, offices and ads.) That Yoo is not already in jail.. says not quite All, but enough. My 3 kopeks

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