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If it can happen to Yoo it will happen to you Dick Cheney

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states "The government had asked Judge Jeffrey S. White of Federal District Court in San Francisco to dismiss the case filed by Jose Padilla, an American citizen who spent more than three years in a military brig as an enemy combatant. Judge White denied most elements of Mr. Yoo's motion and quoted a passage from the Federalist Papers that in times of war, nations, to be more safe, "at length become willing to run the risk of being less free."

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley has said that Yoo's memos "provide the very definition of tyranny."

 

Yoo was a minion. What villain higher up the chain of command was at the center of this?

 

The article "Is CIA Suppressing "Holy Grail" Torture Report That Would Undercut Cheney?" at

 

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/is-cia-supressing-holy-grail-torture-report-that-would-undercut-cheney/

 

details that Cheney is the source as it states "On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof that torture foiled any terror plots, which would dramatically undercut Dick Cheney's claims that torture worked.


But a news story this morning raises the question: Is the CIA trying to keep chunks that would undermine Cheney under wraps?"

 

Why are we concerned that Cheney might wriggle out of this? The Justice Department is dragging its feet. 

 

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