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The legalistic lawyer, who earned the name “Professor Torture” and “Dr. Toture” is
John Yoo, a key architect of the post-
Dr. Torture Yoo authored a plethora of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.
You Can Listen to the pertinent excerpt from a “debate” between the learned John Yoo, now a professor of law at the University of Berkeley, formerly one of the unholy coterie of legal fascists – Dick Cheney, David Addington and Alberto Gonzales – dedicated to undermining the US Constitution. The debate was at Columbia University on December 1, 2005, when Dr. Torture Yoo argued there are no legal or Constitutional constraints on the President’s authority to torture.
The audio of this exchange is available online at revcom.us
Listen:
http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_t orture.mp3
Attributions/Citations:
John Yoo Interview with the British weekly The Spectator (as published in the Montreal Gazette) ‘Professor Torture’ stands by his famous memo
ALASDAIR PALMER, The Spectator Published: Saturday, March 17
Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and author of A Tragic Legacy: How
a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, speech/debate at the Cato
Institute. August 07, 2007 & 9/23/2007 on BookTV on C-
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11488.htm
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/weblogs/index.html
http://letters.salon.com/ed5ca3007d7ae628dd365be552a7b6eb/autho r/index125.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/interviews/yoo.html
Wake up!
Those tapes and memos are not from Hitler’s long-
Roll over and dream all is well “because we allied with ‘Good Old Uncle Joe’ Stalin to put an end to such horrors wreaked by madmen long ago.”
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