John Yoo

Colbert Hates Yoo: Takes On Philadelphia Inquirer For Hiring Torture Defender, Mocks Liberal Media For Terrible Puns (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy

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Yes, yes, I know, I did it again. In the grand tradition of using John Yoo's name to create dad-jokesque headlines, I too am to blame. But I never tor...

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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Germany, Waterboarding, Terrorists, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo Torture, Obama, Dick Cheney Torture, Tokyo Tribunals, David Addington, Bruce Springsteen, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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Bush Ringleaders Could Face Citizen Arrests for Torture

Jeff Norman | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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Jeff Norman

In California, a citizen may make an arrest for a felony -- even if he or she didn't witness it.

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Jason Linkins

Philadelphia Inquirer Defends Hiring John Yoo As Columnist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

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The Philadelphia Inquirer is a bankrupt newspaper run by a guy who hates David Axelrod that spends what meager monies it has paying ungodly sums to pe...

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The Philadelphia Inquirer and John Yoo

John McQuaid | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

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John McQuaid

Yoo's hiring at the Inquirer is an assent to the dangerous notion that if the U.S. government engaged in torture no matter how reprehensible it might be, it must have some legitimacy.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 12, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media

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With John and Elizabeth Edwards back in the news, Matt Yglesias espies Michael Tomasky ruminating on what can get you "banished from public life," and...

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John Yoo, Torture Memo Author, Gets Monthly Column

Philadelphia Inquirer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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By late last year, the world already knew a great deal about John Yoo, the Philadelphia native and conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 7, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media

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Earlier this week, Rachel Maddow discussed the ongoing saga of the torture memos, and how the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsib...

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Torture Memo Authors May Avoid Professional Sanctions

Washington Post | Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Efforts to impose professional sanctions on Bush administration lawyers who drafted memos supporting harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects face s...

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Torture Memo Author Advocated Presidential Pardons, Jury Nullification

Murray Waas | Posted 12.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Eric Holder, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Home News
Murray Waas

A Bush administration attorney who approved harsh interrogation techniques of terror suspects advocated in 2006 that President Bush set aside recommen...

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Jason Linkins

Maddow: Torture Memo Authors Should Go To Jail (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Media Monitor Brian C. directs attention to a segment from last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, in which the host responded to the recent n...

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Condi Rice's Tortured Macaca Moment

Ari Melber | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

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Ari Melber

Rice's recent incident shows the prospects for what we might call a substantive Macaca Moment -- using YouTube and citizen media to scrutinize our leaders on the issues, not gaffes.

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Ten Ways to Bring the Bush Administration's Torture Ten to Justice (and One Way to Avoid)

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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Michael Kieschnick

It is worrisome that even the most outraged of our leaders inside the beltway are calling only for the familiar bipartisan truth commission to "investigate."

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Dickipedia: John Yoo

Dickipedia | Kevin Allocca | Posted 05.28.2009 | Comedy

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John Choon Yoo (born June 10, 1967) is an American attorney, former U.S. Justice Department official, Berkeley law professor, writer of memos, foremos...

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I Debated a War Criminal

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home

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Peter Jan Honigsberg

I Debated a War Criminal Professor Peter Jan Honigsberg In September 2005, the Federalist Society at the University of San Francisco School of Law, w...

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Torture Used to Link Saddam with 9/11

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: September 11, Waterboarding, Saddam Hussein, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

Obama's intent to immunize those who violated our laws banning torture and cruel treatment violates the President's constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

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Follow the Evidence

David Bromwich | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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David Bromwich

The truth about what Bush and Cheney and Addington and Yoo and Cambone and Feith and a handful of others did must be known before it can be judged, and all that can be judged is the content of their actions.

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Torture, Done in Our Name

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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Rick Horowitz

If the rest of us are to live with ourselves, if we're to regain our own consciences, first we have to see it for what it was, and call it by its rightful name, this thing that was done in our name.

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Sam Stein

MoveOn Torture Ad Highlights Cheney For Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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MoveOn.org is set to launch an aggressive new ad campaign calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the use of torture during the Bush ad...

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The Torture Memos: Berlin, 1937 Version

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jay Bybee, Nazi Germany, Torture, John Yoo, OLC Memos, George W. Bush, Steven Bradbury, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shayana Kadidal

The memorandum, issued by the Reich Ministry of Justice, followed a meeting of several Justice Ministry lawyers and public prosecutors with several high-level Gestapo officials. It speaks for itself.

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Jay S. Bybee: It's Not Torture If You Use A Caterpillar

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

I never thought I would be having arguments with people about the merits of torture, which goes to show you how low Bush sunk the general level of American political discourse.

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Living Memory, Torture, and Trials

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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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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Spain Investigates What America Should

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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Marjorie Cohn

It is the responsibility of the United States to investigate allegations of torture. The use of torture should be purged from our system, much like we eradicated slavery.

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The Torture Lawyers: Where Are They Now?

Andrew Woods | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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Andrew Woods

William "Jim" Haynes II was hired in 2008 as Chief Corporate Counsel at Chevron Corporate Office in San Ramon, CA. Why would Chevron hire Haynes?

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 3, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

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