Just wanted to echo what Glenn Greenwald says here.
A DOJ memo written by John Yoo, former Assistant Deputy Attorney General and current UC Berkley law professor, was just realeased thanks to the hard work of the ACLU. In it John Yoo writes a very lawyerly "opinion" designed to legitimize and legalize the torture and inhumane treatment of human beings in the custody of the US Armed Forces.
This was a criminal act in furtherance of a conspiracy to commit war crimes, plain and simple. In a just world John Yoo would be in prison. The fact that he continues to be employed by one of the nation's most prestigious law schools and frequently invited onto op ed pages and television shows shows how insanely skewed our national debate has become. This is not someone that should be engaged in as an honest intellectual. This is someone that should be jailed for war crimes.
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