THE DUNGEON

Torture State

September 25, 2001: Justice Department Lawyer Asserts There Is No Limit to President’s Authority to Wage War

THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST TERRORISTS AND NATIONS SUPPORTING THEM - John Yoo



Memos to White House on Geneva Convention by Yoo/Delahunty/Philbin

The Torture Memo By Judge Jay S. Bybee That Haunted Alberto Gonzales's Confirmation Hearings
By JOHN W. DEAN

John Choon Yoo (born 1967 in Seoul[1] [2]) is an American professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, known for his work from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel,[3] assisting the Attorney General in his function as legal advisor to President Bush and all the executive branch agencies.

Judge Jay S. Bybee
Jay S. Bybee (born October 27, 1953 in Oakland, California) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was originally nominated by President George W. Bush on May 22, 2002 and was confirmed by the United States Senate 74-19 on March 13, 2003.

March 14th 2003 Yoo Memo - Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States
2003 MEMO ON INTERROGATION
Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail - WaPo

Drugging Detainees Is Among Techniques
’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations - NYT
Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed

Psychologists and CIA torture, the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed experience
Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children - AUDIO
Video from Abu Ghraib - Graphic and Mature content. Abuse or an element of a broader torture program?
The "Taguba Report" On Treatment Of Abu Ghraib Prisoners In Iraq


Infraguard - Domestic Military Deputized

Bush Aware of Advisers' Interrogation Talks

President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods
Chairman Conyers Announces Hearing on Yoo Torture Memo
Mukasey Distances Himself From a Memo on Searches





The Torture Hearings

Audio Here
Video Here h/t mire

Tuesday 05/06/2008 - 9:30 AM
2141
Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights,
and Civil Liberties

Meeting to consider: To consider a resolution authorizing the Chairman of
the Committee to issue subpoenas to David Addington and John C. Yoo

By Direction of the Chairman

Tuesday 05/06/2008 - 10:00 AM
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Hearing on: From the Department of Justice to Guantanamo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules, Part I

By Direction of the Chairman

Philippe Sands, QC
Professor of Law University College London 
Barrister Matrix Chambers Marjorie Cohn
Professor of Law Thomas Jefferson School of Law 

President National Lawyers Guild David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Partner Baker & Hostetler, LLP David J. Luban
Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center

Jim Haynes’s Long Twilight Struggle

John Yoo, who played a key role in working with Haynes on the introduction of torture policy and circumventing the JAG corps in the process, helped prepare the field for Haynes effort with an article in the UCLA Law Review in which Yoo assailed the JAG corps, essentially accusing them of disloyalty to the President, and insisting that their more vigorous subordination to political appointees was essential. - Scott Horton