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John Yoo Memo

The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Tarp, George Bush, U.S. Economy, Law, Elizabeth Warren, Judges, David Cole, Economy, Books, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Rule of Law, George W. Bush, Ponzi Scheme, CIA Torture, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, John Yoo, Foreign Policy, John Yoo Memo, Politics, Human Rights, Cia, Torture Memos, Torture, Books News
David A. Love

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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How Iceland's Lawyers Enabled Fraud

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Michael Jackson, Legal Ethics, Lawyers, Legal-Ethics, Cheney, Iceland Economic Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, John Yoo, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Elvis Presley, Iceland Bankrupt, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo Memo, Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Banks, Investment Banks, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Ethics, Banks, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iceland Bank Crisis, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

The lack of clear ethical rules and the frontier justice mentality in Iceland continues to cause confusion and raise questions about the legal profession's ability to regulate itself in Iceland.

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Living Memory, Torture, and Trials

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Rule of Law, John Yoo, Bybee Memo, Torture, John Yoo Memo, Prosecution, World News
Terry Curtis Fox

If we who prosecuted Germans at Nuremberg refuse to hold Americans to the same standard, we are depriving Nuremberg of its precedential value.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 3, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Obama g20, Spain War Crimes, Pundits, Obama Inauguration, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Predictions, Chip Reid, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Drudge Report, Unitary Executive, Politics News

It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynami...

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Author Of Bush Torture Memos Regrets Style, Not Content

The Washington Independent | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, George W. Bush, Bush Memos, John Yoo, Torture Memo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn't regret the substa...

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John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic

Naomi Wolf | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Memos, Bush Administration, Bush Doj, John Yoo, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo Memo, George W. Bush, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

The release this week of the "secret memos" confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.

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Bush Considered Throwing Out First Amendment

Newsweek | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush First Amendment, 9/11, Bush Memo, Bush Torture, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and off...

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Dem Senators Pressure Obama's DOJ To Release Torture Report

The Plum Line | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sheldon Whitehouse, Obama Justice Department, Greg Craig, Dick Durbin, Obama Doj, Obama Administration, John Yoo, Torture Memo, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...

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Bush Torture Memo Author Yoo Gets New Gig

Overruled | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Bush Torture, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Bush Yoo, Bush Torture Meetings, Bush Torture, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

Academic freedom is very important. Universities exist to produce knowledge, unconstrained by political winds or the whims of wealthy donors. If pro...

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Obama Lawyers Set To Defend Bush 'Torture Memo' Author In Court

Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Jose Padilha, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Obama Lawyers, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Yoo, Jose Padilla, Donald Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...

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Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist

Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George W, Bush, Justice Department, Bush Administration Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration Torture Legalizing, John Ashcroft, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo, Jack Goldsmith, John Yoo Memo, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Errol Morris, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
Errol Morris

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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Jason Linkins

Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be 'Indicted For War Crimes'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Torture, John Yoo, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, Andrew Sullivan, Chris Matthews, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. ...

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Jason Linkins

Disclosure Of Torture Memo Fails To Grab Traditional Media's Attention

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation Memo, Torture Memo, Disclosure of Yoo Memo, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Politics News

What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? This week, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal ...

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Pentagon Releases 2003 Memo Approving Harsh Interrogation Tactics

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2003 Memo, Interrogation Memo, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, US Torture Memo, Pentagon Memo, Interrogation Memo Released, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror...

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