Would the US Attack It's Own Citizens?

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

This Isn't New

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."

Theodore Roosevelt, 1906

Bush Lawyer Says Child Torture Legal

This is a text transcript excerpt of this exchange between International Human Rights expert Doug Cassel and John Yoo:

Doug Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

John Yoo: No treaty.

Doug Cassel: Also no law by Congress -- that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo... John Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that. "