As "high government officials" clamor to deny knowledge of wrongdoing, one character in particular stands out as willing accomplice in the Bush program of state torture and illegal surveillance: former Assistant Attorney General and now Federal Judge Jay Bybee.
Be at the Courthouse (at 7th & Mission Streets) this Tuesday at noon.
While his subordinate John Yoo gets much deserved credit for creating the "legal" framework to subvert the law, Bybee took the ball and ran when asked to provide specific interpretations  of torture techniques...
(Bush - Bybee Museum of Torture photo).
... for which he was rewarded handsomely with appointment to a position on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.Â
Bybee is "not surprised" that Yoo "became the White House's guy" on national security matters, and signed off on memos that established policy to get around the law. But it was Bybee's own memo that offered legal cover for clear violations of the US Criminal Code and the Geneva Conventions, to which the US is a signatory.
As long as a Torture Judge sits on the bench of the Ninth Circuit Court, every decision this court reaches is tainted. A court where an internationally-exposed war criminal sits in judgment on anything or anyone is a sham.
JOIN WORLD CAN'T WAIT AND FRIENDS AT THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ON TUESDAY, JULY 14
Let the courthouse press know that there is a growing movement of people living in this country who will not allow torture judges, torture professors, torture lawyers, torture ex-presidents and vice-presidents, et al to waltz back into comfortable civilian lives as if their hands aren't covered in blood.
World Can't Wait and other anti-torture groups and people who refuse to accept the torture state will be there - will you?Â
