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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 06:42 PM
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If you have the time, you might be interested in this
It was on Fresh Air today.

Politics & Society: 'The Torture Papers' Detail U.S. Detainee Policies

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4465423

A new book compiles U.S. memos and reports on the interrogation and treatment of detainees in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib was edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel.

Politics & Society: Writer of Detainee Memos Speaks Out

John Yoo is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel of the Dept. of Justice. He wrote some of the memos in the new book The Torture Papers, including some pertaining to the Geneva Conventions and the definition of torture. He signed off on the memo denying prisoner-of-war status under the Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Yoo is currently a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Talk about lowest of the low. This guy is just slimey.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 06:49 PM
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1. I heard it on the way home
though I had to turn off Yoo. But after he was done, another guy came on and told it like it is!
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 06:55 PM
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3. Yoo is a person who has no ethics and no morals.
That's based on what he said and did. I don't know why he's teaching (I'm assuming) legal students at Berkeley.
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Rapcw Donating Member (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 06:50 PM
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2. U guys must be racist,
to attack this man.
:eyes:
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cornermouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 06:57 PM
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4. The only thing I know about Yoo is what I heard him say.
That was plenty.
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