• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    John Yoo?

    “I think that Trump has already decided he’s going to lose on the law,” John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, told Fox News on Monday. “Last week, the judge already made all the key findings against him. So what I think President Trump has done is turn this all into a political strategy.”

    Yeah… THAT John Yoo:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

    “a March 13, 2003, legal opinion written by John Yoo of the Office of Legal Counsel, DoJ, and issued to the General Counsel of Defense five days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq started, concluding that federal laws related to use of torture and other abuse did not apply to agents interrogating foreigners overseas;[3] and other DoD internal memos authorizing techniques for specific military interrogations of certain individual detainees.”

    and:

    “You have asked for this advice in the course of conducting interrogations of Abu Zubaydah.”[6] The memo’s author, John Yoo, acknowledged the memo authorized the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA in Zubaydah’s interrogation.[7] Yoo told an interviewer in 2007, “there was an urgency to decide so that valuable intelligence could be acquired from Abu Zubaydah, before further attacks could occur.”[7]

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      John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration

      It’s insane that a guy like this who tried to get government torture legalized in the United States has now had a long, well-paying, distinguished career and is being referred to as “a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official” instead of “torture guy.”

      I guess having zero morals and ethics really does pay off.