DECONSTRUCTING BYBEE

Don’t miss this wonderful little take-down of Jay Bybee’s horrifying 2002 torture memo, essentially defining torture out of existence. Those who seem to believe that no one in the upper reaches of the Bush administration ever wanted to expand the use of torture should read the Bybee memo. Its plain meaning – its obvious intent – was to provide legal justification for cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of detainees. And it worked.