Showing posts with label John Yoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Yoo. Show all posts
January 15, 2010
December 10, 2009
"Turley: Obama bags Peace Prize while his lawyers are ‘gutting’ Nuremberg"
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane, RawStory.com, December 10, 2009:
The Obama administration has asked the Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit brought by convicted terrorist Jose Padilla against torture memo author John Yoo, asserting that Yoo cannot be sued for legal opinions he offered in the course of advising then-President Bush on national security matters.
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley finds this decision inexplicable. "The president literally has gotten onto a plane this evening to go to Norway," he told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday, "to accept the Nobel Prize, while his Justice Department is effectively gutting a major part of Nuremberg."
"The Obama administration is arguing not only that they shouldn't be prosecuted," Tuirley emphasized, "but it's now saying that you shouldn't even be able to sue them civilly. ... It's an international disgrace. . . ."
November 23, 2009
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July 20, 2009
May 29, 2009
DOJ OPR re Bybee and Yoo
"DOJ Report Reaches 'Damning' Conclusions for Bybee and Yoo," Jason Leopold, May 7, 2009:
An ethics report prepared by H. Marshall Jarrett, head of the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), reached “damning” conclusions about numerous cases of “misconduct” in the advice attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee provided the Bush administration, according to legal and Congressional sources familiar with the findings and news reports.
The report, which also may be critical of legal opinions authorizing domestic surveillance activities, recommends state bar associations conduct a review of Yoo and Bybee’s legal work to determine whether they should face disciplinary action, including disbarment. . . .
May 26, 2009
Brian Tierney and Will Bunch on WHYY
Radio Times, WHYY, May 26, 2009: "Hour 2: Brian Tierney, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Daily News senior writer Will Bunch discuss the issues around hiring John Yoo as a commentator for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Listen to the mp3."
May 21, 2009
Amy Goodman re Yoo/Inquirer
Truthdig.com, "Yoo’s Views Make Philly News," by Amy Goodman, May 19, 2009. ". . . There are many Philadelphians who can write and inspire debate that leads people to action. John Yoo has done enough harm."
May 19, 2009
Will Bunch responds
"The latest poor information on John Yoo," by Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News, 05/17/2009: ". . . Torture isn't like mass transit funding or filling a Supreme Court vacancy. It is something that is both unlawful and immoral and falls into those categories of things -- like racial discrimination or any kind of violence (which torture is) -- that are clearly beneath the core standards of the community. A newspaper that make such an overt (and unforced, and unnecessary) hire as John Yoo is normalizing torture to its readers and the world, stating that waterboarding and other violent interrogation tactics are just another one of those 'on one hand, on the other hand' kind of things. I find this torture normalization highly offensive, as do scores of other people who have written the Inquirer. . . ."
Inquirer publisher Brian Tierney wanted Yoo
"Definitely not a 'knee-jerk liberal publication," by Will Bunch, Philly.com, 05/12/2009. "The New York Times, the so-called 'paper of record,' adds to the record of how torture architect John Yoo got that Inquirer column. . . ."
May 13, 2009
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