Topic: John Yoo

David Hicks a Guantanamo Bay? Detainee for six years has been home in Australia for over three years now. quickly determine whether there is enough evidence to detain them or not.You might remember that shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the ...

Taxi to the Dark Side

"Taxi to the Dark Side" Not because it is by any stretch of the imagination a bad movie, or because I disagreed with its message, but because it really crystallized in my mind what's wrong with the way we deal with supposed ...
Anti-war protesters call for removal of former Bush attorney who teaches law at UC BerkeleyAnti-war activists are protesting at the University of California, Berkeley to demand the removal of a law professor who used to craft legal theories for the Bush administration ...
"The CIO Council has a bad case of attention deficit disorder when it comes to the e-mail disaster in the federal government," said archive director Tom Blanton, author of a book on an e-mail lawsuit against the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations., ...
Senate chairman demands search for e-mails of lawyers who worked on Bush interrogation policy A Senate committee chairman told the Justice Department on Friday to hunt for the missing e-mails of an attorney who provided legal justification for the Bush administration's harsh ...

Bush lawyers criticized on interrogation advice

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Bush administration lawyers who authorized harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects used poor judgment but will not face punishment, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released on Friday.The department's Office of Professional Responsibility had originally found that ...
Ethics document will say Bush lawyers showed poor judgment but no misconduct Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won't face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to ...
During a recent interview, John Yoo suddenly found himself speaking admiringly--not gushingly, but with unambiguous approbation all the same--about President Barack Obama. Now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, John Yoo served from 2001 to 2003 in the ...
A man serving a 17-year prison sentence for terrorist activities has been given the green light to sue a former US government lawyer who wrote memos that allegedly led to his torture, US media reports said Sunday.Jose Padilla, a US citizen arrested ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Yoo

Berkeley law professor John Yoo is arguably the profession's most polarizing figure these days. Late last year, without much fanfare, the Philadelphia Inquirer signed up Yoo to write a monthly column. The Inquirer thus handed Yoo a loud megaphone on what was ...
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