Even John Yoo Can’t Get Behind Forced Rectal Feeding
Former Bush counsel John Yoo, author of the famous “torture memos” that allegedly discovered legal justification for the Bush administration’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday morning that forced rectal feeding and other gruesome acts detailed in the Senate Intelligence Committee report released last week were not approved by the Justice Department and should not have been carried out.
“Those are very troubling examples,” he said. “They would not have been approved by the Justice Department. They were not approved by the Justice Department at the time…They were not supposed to be done and those people who did those are at risk legally because they were acting outside their orders.”
This is Yoo, so there were plenty of prevarications along the lines of “if these actions occurred” and deflections that the SIC report was an allegedly partisan affair. He also said that the examples where “cherry-picked” out of millions of documents.
Yoo stopped short of using the t-word, as former Vice President Dick Cheney did this morning.
Watch the clip below, via CNN:
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