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To me the scary thing about Yoo's argument is how logical it can sound. He posits that respect to interrogation there is a space between torture at one end of the spectrum and Constitutionally protected rights like the 4th and 5th amendments way down near the other end of the spectrum. (1/ )

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If you buy into that premise, "all" that he is saying is that there is an area between reading someone the Miranda warning and torture as defined by treaties and international law and we can do whatever the F we want in their. It's couched as a "if it doesn't say you can't then you can" (2/ )

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