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Originally Posted by Cali Coug
It isn't hard to come up with a law he broke. Torture is illegal. He would have committed conspiracy to commit torture.
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Nonsense. Setting aside the fact that there is no uniform agreement on what constitutes torture, the whole point of the memos was for Bybee to give his opinion on what he thought was legal. For a prosecutor to show malfeasance here, he'd have to prove Bybee was actually advocating breaking the law.
I've read some conservative commentators who think Bybee made a poor argument. That's fair game. But to say he committed conspiracy to break the law is really silly.
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