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Originally Posted by Tex
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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Yeah, it's really silly to think that Bybee was ordered to produce a document that provided legal justification for torture.
Let me put on my tinfoil hat for even thinking of such an outrageously improbable thing.