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Is treason in the eye of the beholder?
by Telemachus
John Yoo's reward for justifying all-American torture is to teach law at Berkley and probably a Supreme Court nomination in the Jeb Bush administration. David Addington will serve, or actually receive salaries without showing up, on another dozen corporate boards for his advice and support to a Vice President who really brought the Vice to the title. Rather than being punished for sullying the reputation of the United States for all time, and conspiring to commit torture which carries a life in prison penalty, they will be lionized in the conservative anti-America. After all the commissions, all the hearings, all the findings, all the rhetoric, it is time for Congress to ACT! Either torture stands as the policy of the United States, bringing us lower than Libya in the international community, or torture is illegal, as has been found by our own courts who tried Japanese for waterboarding our soldiers in WWII. There is no way to restore our standing in world opinion to what is was on 9/12/2001. But we can begin to redeem ourselves, for ourselves. Or we can give up on ourselves, and give ultimate victory to the terrorists. The clock is ticking, and anything done after 1/20/09 is the act of cowards. I am not a coward, and I wish I had a government that represented me.
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