John Yoo, David Addington, William Haynes torture memos

Torture advocates and enablers to testify


“Torture is always illegal,” Cohn said in an interview after the hearing. “Yet the lawyers in the Justice Department of legal counsel, including John Yoo, David Addington and William Haynes, wrote memos that … narrowed the definition of torture far beyond what our law allows.”

By HEATHER CHAMBERS

San Diego Business Journal Staff

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John Yoo's Dilemma

John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, faces a dilemma. You might recall that he was one of the most controversial lawyers in the Bush administration's early years.

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John Yoo's Dilemma
by David R. Henderson

Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S.

Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S. (4/2/2008)

ACLU Calls For Immediate Release Of Withheld Legal Memo

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NEW YORK – A newly disclosed secret memo authored by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in March 2003 that asserts President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations of detainees also reveals a radical interpretation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The memo, declassified yesterday as the result of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, cites a still-secret DOJ memo from 2001 that found that the "Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations." Read whole story here.

Tell the Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law to Fire John Yoo

From The American Freedom Campaign:

Tell the Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law to Fire John Yoo

In 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo advising the Pentagon that laws and treaties forbidding torture and other forms of abuse did not apply to U.S. interrogators because of the president's wartime power.

The man who wrote that memo -- John Yoo -- is now happily ensconced as a tenured law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law. While an unknown number of people suffer the aftereffects of illegal torture he encouraged, Professor Yoo is teaching, writing, and generally enjoying life in California.

This is flat out wrong. John Yoo should not only be disqualified from ever serving in government again, but he should also be prohibited from spreading his distorted view of the law and the role of lawyers to young law students.

He must be fired. And the man to do it is Christopher Edley, Jr, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Please fill in the information below and click on "Send my message" to send an E-mail to Dean Edley, urging the dismissal of John Yoo.

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The essence of John Yoo in 24 seconds

John Yoo,

John Yoo
ignorant of the US Constitution
ignorant of the Geneva Convention
ignorant of the highest spiritual teachings of man and God
ignorant of plain and simple human decency:
contributor to the so called "Patriot Act"
legal apologist for the torture of children
visiting scholar at the fascist, war mongering, American Enterprise Institute



Torture must end.