The New York Times reports that Jay Bybee "has become estranged from friends." Bybee, a judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, formerly worked at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, and of late has been under fire from the hard left over memos dealing with the difficult question of what forms of interrogation meet the legal definition of "torture."The only evidence the Times presents for its assertion that Bybee "has become estranged from friends" is this anecdote:
Prof. Christopher L. Blakesley, a colleague on the law school faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said that after the first memorandum was released, he was unable to restrain himself from expressing disagreement at a 2004 dinner at a restaurant that included their wives."I asked him how he could sign such an awful thing," Professor Blakesley recalled in an interview.He said the judge replied that he could not talk about the matter. The dinner proceeded awkwardly, Professor Blakesley said, and they have not spoken since.Professor Blakesley said that while he liked Judge Bybee, "he has some basic flaws including being very naïve about leaders.""He has too much respect for authority and will avoid a confrontation no matter what," the professor continued.
I guess it never occurred to Professor Blakesley that Bybee's not all that interested in returning calls from a douche bag.
Read the whole piece here.
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