Government
Mar. 3, 2010
The Torture Memo John Yoo Should Have Written
Stephen Rohde of the ACLU comments on the finding that John Yoo committed professional misconduct and exercised poor judgment in his legal memos on torture.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
On February 19, the Department of Justice released the long-awaited 261-page Report of the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which concluded, among other things, that in his legal memos on torture and Presidential power, John Yoo had "committed intentional professional misconduct when he violated his duty to exercise independent legal judgment and render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice." A senior Justice Department official, acknowledged that he had not reviewe...
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