One thing these memos make clear. These lawyers were answering specific questions that were posed or at least processed by the White House. I would love to see the memos or letters requesting these opinions. It sounds like they sent a detailed plan for approval, about a specific prisoner in this case. Very nasty business, this. During the Viet Nam War, I thought we were misguided. But with this Iraq War, I feel deeply ashamed of our country…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Torture Memos By: emptywheel April 16, 2009 ACLU has them posted: August 1, 2002 John Yoo memo First May 10, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo Second May 10, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo May 30, 2005 Steven Bradbury memo Did I say they were worried about blows to the head? From the August 1, 2002 memo: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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What follows this introduction is a long narrative justifying each of these techniques as being something other than torture. While the absurdity of the logic is the most striking feature at first glance, it’s the detachment of the authors that becomes increasingly monstrous. It really does sound like some of the lingo in the German descriptions of their extermination camps, as if they’re talking about something other than human beings – things like "… the head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel that provides a c-collar effect to help prevent whiplash," as if whiplash<\/em> is the problem. It’s hard to imagine that the White House got involved with such things [such pointless things].<\/div>\n