John Yoo speaks about Torture during the former Bush administration

John Yoo was one of the people who worked under the Bush administration to create the legal workings or wording to allow torture aka water boarding.



Torture is often used to obtain false confessions or to silence people.



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John Yoo former 2001-2003 U.S. deputy assistance attorney general of Justice under the Bush administration.



What did the treaty mean regarding torture…the question had never been asked as to what is torture.



What is and isn’t torture, we had never come up with that question as a government before.



All those other cases regarding Americans being tortured go well beyond the law and what Americans would consider torture.



It’s how much we can interrogate people and not violate the ban on torture.



John Yoo Conclusion



In the end it is still good for us to have a President able to make those good decisions even at the cost of having Presidents who make the bad ones. It’s worth it for our system to have a Lincoln or an FDR even if the price is to have someone who is like a Nixon.



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Conclusion



The Bush administration did not know what torture was but knows that Americans were tortured.



It’s not how much we can torture people but how much we can physically and painfully interrogate someone and not violate the ban on criminal interrogation.