Thinkprogress:
Former Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel lawyer John Yoo, who wrote controversial legal memos authorizing the administration’s torture programs, will not testify voluntarily before the House Judiciary Committee, ABC reports, “paving the way for a possible subpoena and showdown over Executive Privilege. In a letter to Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), Yoo’s lawyer said his client was “not authorized” by the DOJ to discuss internal deliberations:
We have been expressly advised by the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice that Professor Yoo is not authorized to discuss before your Committee any specific deliberative communications, including the substance of comments on opinions or policy questions, or the confidential predecisional advice, recommendations or other positions taken by individuals or entities of the Executive Branch.
After a recent ABC report stating that Bush’s “principal” advisers directly authorized torture in 2002, Conyers also invited John Ashcroft, George Tenet, former Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin, Douglas Feith, and David Addington to testify.
And I wonder what UC Berkeley has to say about Professor Yoo.
1 comment:
Don't look for the Law Makers to do anything but sit on their hands and do nothing. Now UC Berkeley is paying a terrorist to teach students that's interesting. I thought the terrorist were our enemy who knew. Now Yoo will write a book and Americans will make him rich so he can continue to teach and train future terrorist to run the US Government before another country takes over. Yoo was born in Korea and learned how to torture but both North/South Korea wouldn't want him back. Yoo's parents run from the Korea War with Yoo in hand and told him of the horror, as Yoo learned and listen well. I noticed how must of the horrible crimes committed by the US Government come from those who aren't born Americans and those who families resent immigrants. Look at Gonzo who parents were immigrants while he moved up to the top stop of Attorney General only to subject Americans to his crime wave. Gonzo's sister Teresa is a King Pin Drug Dealer by profession so family roots there.
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