The Death of Outrage

I missed the obituary.

Torture Yoo thinks it’s OK to crush a kid’s testicles if Dubya thinks he needs to.

This part of the exchange during the debate with Doug Cassel, reveals the logic of Yoo’s theories, adopted by the Administration as bedrock principles, in the real world.

Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

I can’t believe we are actually having a debate about this. Are we mad?

I am. But you knew that.