FYI. By his own hand in the 8-1-02 memo, he admits to conspiracy to commit war crimes. There IS NO viable artful parsing. Mr. Bybee advocated the use of tactics long established as torture.

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From: Robert Gladd

Date: April 20, 2009 4:10:42 PM PDT

To: brian@lasvegassun.com

Subject: Fwd: msg to the white House

BTW, congrats on the Pulitzer.

You guys need to put Bybee above the fold, page one.

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From: Robert Gladd

Date: April 20, 2009 3:00:41 PM PDT

To: Taylor Marsh

Subject: Fwd: msg to the white House

FYI. Really pissed. I tried to submit this on the White House web contact form, but it's not working.

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From: Robert Gladd

Date: April 20, 2009 2:23:11 PM PDT

To: Robert Gladd

Subject: msg to the white House

I am furious at the reports of your spokesman Mr Gibbs saying that you will not prosecute torture violations.

I sent this around widely today:

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Mr. Bybee;

You should be fired from UNLV, impeached by Congress, indicted for conspiracy involving war crimes, disbarred, and imprisoned. I now have a copy of your 8-1-02 memo. Notwithstanding the numerous redactions, it comprises dispositive evidence of your criminality. You were a willful, thoroughly knowledgeable, and enthusiastic advocate for the kinds of rank barbarism we decry in our enemies. And, "high value" exemplar detainees such as Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are really just red herrings; the larger problem is that we have quite likely applied these criminal techniques against numerous nameless others, most of them likely innocent and in possession of no useful intelligence information. Your actions have contributed to the deaths and maimings of many more U.S. troops, put any subsequent American military captives at severely heightened risk of torture, and have significantly sullied our international reputation. You should be held to account. I will tirelessly do my part to see that such will be the case.

cc: Senators Reid, & Ensign, Representative Dina Titus, US DOJ

cc: Senator John McCain, Fax 202-228-2862

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From: Robert Gladd

Date: April 19, 2009 12:31:50 PM PDT

To: john.white@unlv.edu

Cc: brian@lasvegassun.com, Christy Hardin Smith , jwalsh@salon.com

Subject: This man is unfit to practice, much less teach law -- or to serve on the bench

The Torturers’ Manifesto

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19sun1.html?_r=1

"...In one of the more nauseating passages, Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face. He praised the Central Intelligence Agency for having doctors ready to perform an emergency tracheotomy if necessary.

These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations, which was the authors’ statutory obligation. They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country’s most basic values..."

"...These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. Congress should impeach him. And if the administration will not conduct a thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable..."

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Jay Bybee is documentably complicit in war crimes. He should not only be impeached, in a morally coherent world, he would be indicted. It sickens me to see his name associated with my university.

Robert Gladd UNLV alumnus, Institute for Ethics & Policy Studies, 1998, www.bgladd.com

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Should you decide to not investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the Bush administration, I will work for your defeat in the next election. I served as a precinct captain for the President in 2008, and my wife and I contributed far more money than ever before (despite both having been laid off). I now am starting to feel thoroughly betrayed. You almost lost me at FISA last year. Should you cave on torture investigation and prosecution, you will indeed have lost me. Don't think you can just keep taking us for granted because we "have nowhere else to turn."

Do the morally right thing.

http://www.bgladd.com/PDF/BybeeWarCriminal.jpg

Pay it forward.

Mr. Bybee,

Sir, the fact that you now sit on the federal bench owes entirely to the concealment of your 08/01/02 OLC torture memo during your confirmation process. I will do whatever I can to help redress that egregious error. By your own hand, you are documentably complicit in subornation of war crimes. You just go ahead and ignore me. Fine. I will, however, persist. You have done incalculable harm to this nation. It cannot go unchallenged and unremediated. I will do my part to see that it does not. Count on it.

Robert Gladd