Aussies Do What Americans Won't...

Australian comedy show "The Chaser's War on Everything," shows a man dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner disrupting one of John Yoo's classes (he currently lectures at UC Berkeley and Chapman University). Yoo, formerly of the Department of Justice, played a key role in the Bush administration's justification of torture.
...some applauded like vacuous zombies
...who were they applauding? ...if it was John Yoo for ending class then yes they are vacuous zombies!

...we're willing to wager that the majority of students in Yoo's classes have no idea who he is...hence, no outrage...

"Extraordinary and Inappropriate"

The Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 surveillance efforts went beyond the widely publicized warrantless wiretapping program, a government report disclosed Friday, encompassing additional secretive activities that created "unprecedented" spying powers.
The report also raised new questions about how the Bush White House kept key Justice Department officials in the dark as it launched the surveillance program.
In a move that it described as "extraordinary and inappropriate," the report said the White House relied on a single, lower-level attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel for assessments about the programs' legality.
The questionable attorney, John Yoo, a young George W. Bush appointee/crony with close ties to the president's inner circle, wrote a series of memos usurping truth and legally blessing the program even though his superiors and most top officials were uninformed about it; in essence, practically proclaiming the executive branch of government above the law.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy is calling for a nonpartisan inquiry into the government's information-gathering programs.
Los Angeles Times report HERE

Torture & Truth

Disturbing secret memos released this week detail the sadistic interrogation methods the Bush administration authorized the CIA to use on detainees. These memos provide shocking confirmation of high-level involvement in the Bush torture program.
It's appalling to see how far our nation strayed from our commitment to human rights.
Apparently, members of the Bush Administration who directed and authorized all this torture seem to have willed themselves into believing they were doing the righteous and just thing. Maybe they chanted affirmations after reading The Secret.
more HERE and HERE

Former Bush administration officials are criticizing the Obama administration for releasing top-secret ‘torture memos.’ ...of course they are.
more HERE
Read the memos HERE

Related:
The Evil That John Yoo Wrought