In the alternate universe that Stephan Pastis, attorney-cum-cartoonist, has created in "Pearls Before Swine," the resident who serves as an attorney (as needed) for the denizens of "Pearls" is Rat. Pastis knows whereof he speaks. Two real-life Rats who think that waterboarding is akin to surfing and that torture is no big deal, are The Dickster's chief aide, David Addington, and a former Justice Department lawyer, John Yoo. This pair could open a partnership specializing in subverting the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions. Waterboarding is too good for either of these creeps. If this is (fair & balanced) verminology, so be it.
[x Boulder (CO) Fishwrap]
David S. Addington is chief of staff and former legal counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was appointed to replace I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. as Cheney's chief of staff upon Libby's resignation after being indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice on October 28, 2005. Addington was described by U.S. News and World Report as "the most powerful man you've never heard of."
John Choon Yoo is a professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Yoo is known for his work from 2001 to 2003 in the United States Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, assisting Attorney General John Ashcroft in his function as legal advisor to President Bush and all the executive branch agencies. Yoo contributed to the PATRIOT Act and wrote memos in which he advocated the possible legality of torture and that enemy combatants could be denied protection under the Geneva Conventions.]
[John Sherffius has been capturing the issues of the day in pen and ink since his college years at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sherffius has been honored in recent years with national cartooning awards from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, the National Press Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Scripps Howard Foundation. He is the 2008 winner of the Herblock Award. His home paper is the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado.]
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