On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
by Reggie Dylan / Revolution ( revolution. sfbureau [at] gmail. com )
The April 1 release of former Justice Department General Counsel John Yoo?s infamous March 2003 ?torture memo? has led the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and a growing number of organizations and individuals such as World Can?t Wait to [...]
John Yoo’s legal opinions and questions about culpability and timing.
By Scott Horton
John C. Yoo likes the limelight, but it’s causing him some grief. Of the half a dozen lawyers who played important roles in a Bush administration decision to legalize the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques, only Yoo has emerged as the public face [...]
By Marjorie Cohn
Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public. In that memo, Yoo advised the Bush administration that the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel [...]
By PAUL C. CAMPOS, Scripps Howard News Service
In 2003, when he was a deputy assistant U. S. attorney general, John Yoo wrote a long legal memorandum arguing that the president has the inherent constitutional authority to torture people.
Furthermore, Yoo claimed, the president’s power to torture can’t be limited by Congress, the courts, or international treaties. [...]
Nick Juliano
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate
any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the “war on terror.”
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 [...]
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by James Oliphant, Tribune
The Justice Department late Tuesday released a declassified 2003 memorandum long sought by congressional Democrats and other administration critics that outlines the government’s legal justification for harsh interrogation techniques used by the military against captured enemy combatants outside the United States.
(Here are part one and part two of the memo.)
The memo, written [...]
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