The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We noted that students at Berkeley were on a mission to find the classroom of law Professor John Yoo , best known as the author of the so-called "torture memo." A tipster sent us this video, which shows that someone finally found it. Or at least got pretty close. Apparently, his class has been held in a library conference room, though the harassing narrator of the video isn't permitted...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
America, America, this is YOO. It's the John Yoo bobble-head, outside John Yoo's house on 1241 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Big Government (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Rob Long and Mark Steyn are joined by guests law professor John C. Yoo and Breitbart.com’s Andrew Breitbart. Topics covered include Miranda rights for terrorists, a report from the Tea Party convention, the joyless MSM, Al-Qaeda’s potential new bomb making strategy that may be particularly problematic for certain parts of Los Angeles, and some unconventional [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Protestors gathered at John Yoo's house in the Berkeley Hills to call for his arrest and prosecution for the war crime of complicity in torture. We handed out flyers, chatted with sympathetic passersby, sang "John Yoo Shall Be Removed" and envisioned Yoo in handcuffs.
Sadly, No! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shorter John Yoo The Weekly Standard “Getting it Backwards: Obama Misunderstands his Constitutional Role” Great Presidents don’t bother with domestic issues; great Presidents exercise their prerogative to blow shit up and have people tortured all over the world. Barack Obama is not a great President. ‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week, I suggested that the role Mary Patrice Brown played in softening the conclusion of the OPR report on John Yoo deserved closer scrutiny. Less than a year ago, Eric Holder shifted the head of OPR into a different DOJ role. Almost immediately, OPR backed off its promise that the results of the OPR [...]
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
JOHN HAWKINS interviews John Yoo about his new book, Crisis And Command.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 07/02/2010
ZAKARIA: John Yoo -- you will remember the name, I imagine -- he was the Justice Department lawyer who wrote the so-called "torture memos" during the Bush administration. Those were the legal justifications that allowed what some regarded as torture and other controversial treatments of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and beyond. After leaving the Bush administration in 2003, Yoo returned...
Dr. Helen (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
John Hawkins interviews John Yoo on his new book, Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Riehl World View (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
A couple of tortured Johns for you! Earlier this week, I had a chance to interview John Yoo. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. All right, for the average person out there who doesn't have a...
Pursuing Holiness (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
Check out this great John Yoo interview over at Right Wing News. Yoo was great on The Daily Show, too. Related Posts:R-E-S-P-E-C-TSermon Series: Gospel of John, John's IntroductionAnd now, for something completely different"As the phrase goes, 'ask and you shall receive.'"So what's the big fuss about Twitter?Names of Jesus: they don't include "community organizer"Hope...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
Challenged for his 2005 statement that whether the president could lawfully torture a person's child depends on "why the President thinks he needs to do that," undaunted, John Yoo repeated his claim that it would depend on whether the president finds it "necessary." Promoting his new book "Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power From George Washington to George...
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
My friend John Hawkins over at RightWingNews interviewed John Yoo, the author of the infamous Bush administration “torture memos”. Well worth a read. An Interview With “Torture Memo” Author, John Yoo – Right Wing News Here’s an excerpt: All right, for the average person out there who doesn’t have a law degree, explain why the Geneva Convention...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 04/02/2010
... from Right Wing News.
Fausta's blog (Free subscription) | 05/02/2010
An Interview With “Torture Memo” Author, John Yoo JH: Let me ask you a related question about the Geneva Convention. Since we do apply it in practice to groups like Al Qaeda and since no one seems to apply it to the United States, isn’t the treaty basically pointless? JY: The most important thing, I think, for [...]
