The Pursuit of John Yoo – WSJ.com
I have been watching a story that is so bizarre I can not believe lawyers would be so stupid as to do what some Obama Administration lawyers are doing. They are actually setting themselves up to be sued. Now in light of the KGB agents videos I have been posting perhaps these lawyers think that the system is finally all theirs and they will never have to face the law of the United States of America as it has been, so they feel their kind will be in power forever and they will be protected. Mr. Yuri Bezmenov did say those who have been brainwashed (fanatic Left-wing Progressives) would believe themselves to be invincible and self righteously correct in anything they do. They are incapable of seeing the truth and capable of doing anything for their agenda. Here’s the story:
This month a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that a civil suit filed by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla can proceed against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo for violating the terrorist’s rights. Mr. Yoo is one of those who wrote memos laying out the legal parameters for aggressive interrogation of al Qaeda captives. If Mr. Yoo can be sued, why couldn’t Obama officials also be held liable for their advice if there’s an attack on their watch?
Mr. Koh former dean of Yale and has been a loud and nasty legal critic of Bush interrogation policies. He called President Bush the “torturer in chief.” and condemned all of President Bush’s legal advisers for their advice and written memos sating his view that they were all liable to be sued by those who “suffered torture” because of them.
Now President Obama has nominated Mr. Koh to be State Department legal adviser, who is charged with defending U.S. officials from legal assaults.
The Justice Department is still defending Mr. Yoo as he was working for the government when he gave the legal advice. However he has been under investigation now for 5 years by “the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR)”…..”for alleged misconduct in writing those legal interrogation memos.”
“….the press reported that OPR’s draft report recommends disciplinary action against the Bush lawyers. If the final report reaches the same conclusion, the left-wing bar will try to have those lawyers disbarred, while liberals in Congress could pursue impeachment against Mr. Bybee, a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In that event, Justice might also stop defending Mr. Yoo in court. A professor at Berkeley Law, Mr. Yoo would have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend himself.
This is exactly what the anti-antiterror left hopes to accomplish. Having failed to enact their agenda in Congress, or now even via Mr. Obama, their aim is to ruin and bankrupt individuals in the Bush Administration who played key roles in the war on terror. Their goal is to make sure that no one in public life ever again offers advice that disagrees with their view that terrorists should be handled in nonmilitary courts like common burglars.
This makes perfect sense to me because after all there is no war on terror so there can be no terrorist. this people are “enemy combatants” and any thing they do like blowing up buildings with people in them is not an act of terrorism, it is a “man made disaster”. Is it too bad of me to hope that the next man made disaster strikes them?
The current Attorney General Ben Holder will have to sign off on the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report. The leaked report was probably meant to force his hand even tho it was an act of professional irresponsibility and heads should be rolling. And it really makes no sense because the Bush Administration lawyers were just doing what their superiors asked them to do, they were giving their legal opinion.
As for the lawsuit, Padilla’s rights were never violated. Mr. Bush’s decision to name the so-called “dirty bomber” an enemy combatant was defended in court by executive branch lawyers, who won in the Fourth Circuit. The Bush Administration later transferred Padilla to be tried in a Miami court, and the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. Padilla was convicted after receiving every due process protection and is now serving a 17-year prison sentence.
I can only hope for the Obama Administration underlings that there is no terrorist attacks or prisoners of these attacks or anything else really that they have to make a ruling on because this is setting them up to be sued. Picture this: Obama was advised to close Gitmo and turn the detainees loose. So far we know of 47 who have returned to their old jobs. Now one of these 47 is caught blowing up a building and killing Americans. The families of these Americans under this law that is being made with the Yoo case can sue everyone from Obama thru everyone who signed anything having to do with the closing of Gitmo. Pigeons always come home to roost! and the likelihood of a terrorist attack on American soil in the next four years is a sure bet.
I agree with the author of this article:
Politics can be vicious, but we have come to a very strange pass when government lawyers acting in good faith can be sued by convicted terrorists and investigated for giving advice solicited by their superiors. Mr. Holder will do the country, and his own colleagues in the Obama Administration, a service if he speaks out against the Padilla lawsuit and puts an end to Justice’s part in this nasty exercise.
