A Torturous Interview: John Yoo Does The Daily Show (VIDEO)

I cant't watch mind numbing videos but I do love Jon Stewart.

John Yoo is torturing ME with his absurd fun house mirror logic.

He obviously has father issues.

Stewart & Yoo: Two of a kind. Shake both the geeky little shysters up in a sack, you won't know what crawls out first.

It would have been great if Jon had Professor Jonathan Turley on his show while he was interviewing Yoo . .

I was pleasantly surprised to be informed a little more about Yoo. He is clearly capable of being nice to old ladies crossing streets. For purely legalistic arguments about executive prerogatives in "war" time, it seems he was quite the man to go to.

But, when you're wrong, you're wrong. And he was wrong. And he won't admit it. He'll engage in endless sophistry to defend his legal positions to the point that one's head will spin. Still, he was wrong, this country was wrong in what it did, and *we* feel the pain of that. Yoo doesn't.

Let us fervently hope that, under AG Holder's oversight, 'There Will Never Ever Be Another Yoo.'

Yoo equates talking to Jon Stewart with torture. . . what a coward. John Yoo is a disgusting human being- I need to wash my ears and eyeballs because just listening and watching him on the screen makes me feel ethically, morally and intellectually dirty.

Stewart let him off the hook. I thought he was leading him into a trap of sorts and he just let him go. When Stewart made the point that America tried and convicted folks for torturing American servicemen during WWII, Yoo countered with "but they did much different stuff". Why didn't Jon point out that the Japanese were convicted of torture for waterboarding servicemen? I want an answer to that and he had Yoo right there and so close.

If I were John Yoo, I'd be living quietly in a country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S.

The point is, why, oh why, did Jon Stewart give this war criminal a forum to peddle his sophistry, much less a forum to peddle his book?

John Yoo is NOT newsworthy anymore, until and unless he is arrested and frog-marched to jail (Guantanamo, anyone?).

Years ago, when Richard Nixon wrote a book, there was a campaign to boycott it which was called "Don't Buy Books By Crooks." The same can/should be said about Yoo and his book.

I just dont understand why these ppl, yoo cheney bush are not in prison as they deserve to be. Crimes against humanity arrest their asses now

Seems like if, as Yoo claims, our constitutional system of law gave a President the right to go beyond the normal rule of law and do whatever he deemed necessary when the country is at war that the country would need be at war in a constitutionally prescribed way.
In our current situation, Bush, on his own [alleged] authority decided to declare war and send troops to wage war and to say anything he did was justified because *he* said we were at war and then...oh hell, you know the rest.

I think Doonesbury should reprise his college segment where Mark and Mike skewered Kissinger. What I find most interesting is that Yoo never truly investigated just who was giving him his orders and never met personally with Bush and got first hand observation of the man's low candlepower. But then Sycophants never ask those questions anyway.

The comment that "America had never really addressed the question of what is or isn't torture until after the attacks of September 11, 2001" is ludicrous,. A Texas sheriff was successfully prosecuted and convicted for....WATERBOARDING prisoners to obtain information...Reagan's DOJ in 1983 was the person to do it...
http://www.truthout.org/042709J
"Federal prosecutors secured a 10-year sentence against the sheriff and four years in prison for the deputies.:"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15886834
And the US Army
On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced "a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning, meant to make him talk." The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later, the court martial of the soldier.

And of course the infamous trial of 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

So Mr YOO, what planet have you been on and just where did you get your degree?

Chickens are now starting to roost on U.S. soil.

This mess was created by the Bush Administration and now we as Americans have to live with this reality.

SHAME ON WHO VOTED BUSH IN NOT ONCE BUT 2X'S

war criminals deserve a one way trip to GITMO