Memo: Laws Didn’t Apply to Interrogators - washingtonpost.com
2008/04/02/0924 by farkingaRTFA: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic…
“If a government defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al Qaeda terrorist network,” Yoo wrote. “In that case, we believe that he could argue that the executive branch’s constitutional authority to protect the nation from attack justified his actions.”
Interrogators who harmed a prisoner would be protected by a “national and international version of the right to self-defense,” Yoo wrote. He also articulated a definition of illegal conduct in interrogations — that it must “shock the conscience” — that the Bush administration advocated for years.
Ultimately, after millennia of consideration, the human practice of law and legal progress has concluded: that there are no laws. Who saw that one coming?
I find myself exclaiming, “wow,” with increasing regularity, probably due to the fact that it’s such an interesting time to be alive.
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