{"id":192195,"date":"2009-04-29T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/so-much-for-i-did-it-for-the-judicial-appointment\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T22:38:00","slug":"so-much-for-i-did-it-for-the-judicial-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/29\/so-much-for-i-did-it-for-the-judicial-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"So Much for &#8220;I Did It for the Judicial Appointment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/29\/us\/politics\/29bybee.html?ref=us\">Jay Bybee is actively defending the torture memos that he wrote<\/a>, as opposed what was said by &#8220;friends&#8221; to the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/bybee-broke-law-because-he-wanted-to-be.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, which is that he basically took the OLC job because he had to in order become a Federal Judge.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the money quote is, &#8220;In that context, we gave our best, honest advice, based on our good-faith analysis of the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an attempt to say that it&#8217;s reprehensible, but not criminal, and hence does not fall under the the bailiwick of, &#8220;treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,&#8221; though that might be small comfort, since the first impeachment and conviction was really because the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ipa\/A0764613.html\"> subject was probably clinically insane<\/a>, the charges were &#8220;drunkenness and unlawful rulings,&#8221; and the latter sounds a like Bybee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now Jay Bybee is actively defending the torture memos that he wrote, as opposed what was said by &#8220;friends&#8221; to the Washington Post, which is that he basically took the OLC job because he had to in order become a Federal Judge. I think that the money quote is, &#8220;In that context, we gave our &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}