F Yoo

By GottaLaff

Via a news alert e-mail, just one sentence, one that I can't seem to process:

Justice Department finds no misconduct by lawyers who authorized harsh terror interrogations.

First, it's not "harsh terror interrogations". It's torture. And one cannot interrogate terror.

Next, they can legalese this all they want, but we all know what Yoo and Co. did was dead wrong. Once again, BushCo skates.

It seems "Justice Department" is still an oxymoron.

UPDATE:

The Justice Department has concluded Bush administration lawyers showed poor judgment - not professional misconduct - in writing memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques.

"Poor judgment"? "Poor judgment"?

No, poor judgment is when you drink so much that you don't remember who's lying next to you the next morning.

Poor judgment is spending money you don't have.

Poor judgment is not creating legal justification for torture.