Republicans invite torture architect to testify in favor of indefinite detention

[Judi Lynn]

Republicans invite torture architect to testify in favor of indefinite detention
By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 16:37 EST

Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday will present lawmakers with their first opportunity to begin tearing down the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), but two of the nation’s leading civil rights groups are warning that Republicans have taken an unprecedented and even “chilling” step by inviting the testimony of someone who simply does not belong.

Steven G. Bradbury, who lead the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) for years during the Bush administration, will appear before the committee Wednesday at the request of its Republican members. He’s best known as one of three architects of legal opinions that authorized the Bush administration’s torture program, which President Barack Obama has since claimed to be forever closed.

“It’s nothing short of chilling that the Senate Judiciary Committee would have as a witness one of the architects of the torture program,” American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel Chris Anders told Raw Story on Tuesday. “This is a person who wrote several memos that provide legal justification for the torture program during the Bush administration, and wrote memos on how to try to circumvent legal protections that Congress had put in place to block the use of torture and abuse of detainees.

“For Congress to be relying on someone who has shown so little disregard for the law that he would say that it’s legally okay to waterboard people and use other torture tactics against them is remarkable. It’s remarkable and it’s wrong.”

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/28/republicans-invite-torture-architect-to-testify-on-indefinite-detention/

[Bandit]

1. Surprising to me that anyone is surprised by this..

Republicans simply have no respect for Law or Morality in general. The ONLY morality they claim is based on sex...They are obsessed by sex, but when it comes to hurting people they are all for it..

[Judi Lynn]

2. Don't forget the strange exceptionalism they extend to Republicans like John Vitter

and that strange slimey John Ensign from Nevada who was schtupping his aide's wife. It has been learned that even Rick "man-on-dog" Santorum knew fully well about that creepy arrangement while it was in progress and not only did nothing to discourage him, but tried to help him cover it up.

Very strange, unpleasant world they share there in that Republican circle jerk.