He also criticizes Justice Department officials for their legal
memos. “The DOJ lawyers who wrote the corrupt legal memos giving
attempted cover to Bush's actions have been rewarded by federal
judgeships, cabinet positions, and high falutin' professorships,” he
writes. Yoo is a professor
at the University of California-Berkeley law school, while another
former Justice Department official who signed a Yoo memo, Jay Bybee, is a judge on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Velvel tears into President Bush as well, writing: “The man
ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and
persona for the presidency: he is a former drunk, was a serial fai...

He also criticizes Justice Department officials for their legal
memos. “The DOJ lawyers who wrote the corrupt legal memos giving
attempted cover to Bush's actions have been rewarded by federal
judgeships, cabinet positions, and high falutin' professorships,” he
writes. Yoo is a professor
at the University of California-Berkeley law school, while another
former Justice Department official who signed a Yoo memo, Jay Bybee, is a judge on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Velvel tears into President Bush as well, writing: “The man
ultimately responsible for the torture had a unique preparation and
persona for the presidency: he is a former drunk, was a serial failure
in business who had to repeatedly be bailed out by daddy's friends and
wanna-be-friends, was unable to speak articulately despite the finest
education(s) that money and influence can buy, has a dislike of
reading, so that 100-page memos have to be boiled down to one page for
him, is heedless of facts and evidence, and appears not even to know
the meaning of truth.”