What do you suppose Judge Bybee's reaction would be if
his wife or his children were subjected to mock execution?
Is it likely he wouldn't object, so long as it didn't produce
prolonged mental harm?

If there is such a thing as an ultimate nightmare, it might
be this: Jay Bybee, a federal judge dressed as a clown on
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
torturing you by driving a tenpenny nail into your
funnybone.

Even before he joined the Bush Administration,
Jay Bybee, a law professor at UNLV, had begun
to sketch out how Article I, Section 8, Clause
3 of the Constitution could be construed to
justify what some people call 'enhanced
interrogation techniques' and other people
call 'torture'.

"Waterboarding, in my judgment, falls within
the bounds of acceptable interrogation
techniques. But teabagging, I've always
believed, crosses over the line."

Jay Bybee, author of one of the torture memos, is
now a judge of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit. It could have been worse.
It's possible he would now be sitting on the
Supreme Court, using his sophistic skills to
torture the Constitution.