From The Chicago Tribune:
In the latest legal contest over the treatment of detained terrorist suspects, attorneys for Jose Padilla filed a suit in a California federal district court this morning against John Yoo, the former deputy assistant Attorney General whose legal opinions formed the basis for Padilla's detention and the interrogation techniques used against him that the attorneys call torture....
The suit filed this morning in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, turns the spotlight of blame on Yoo, the author of a series of legal memoranda known collectively as the "Torture Memos." Drafted in 2002, when Yoo was a deputy assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, they provided the legal justification for the interrogation techniques used on suspected Al Qaeda operatives that many, from former generals to presidential candidates, have since decried as torture.
"John Yoo is the first person in American history to provide the legal authorization for the instiution of torture in the U.S.," said Jonathan Freiman, an attorney representing Padilla in the suit. "He [Yoo] was an absolutely essential part of what will be viewed by history as a group of rogue officials acting under cover of law to undermine fundamental rights.it never would have happened without the legal green light. That made it possible."
3 comments:
I saw the interview of Mr. Yoo on PBS and believe me he is going to wish he didn't talk so much. That tape will seal it for Padilla. Yoo was so proud of his work he took pride at breaking the law and even got his job because he did such a great job for the White House. I think he's at Stanford and now I wonder what College thinks about one of it's teachers who has made History by breaking the Law and many more law suits to come. It's time for Yoo to lawyer up and get a fund raiser website.
Who is bringing the KFC for this fund raiser?
Ha ha.
You can provide the funds since you a rich cat. ;-)
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