Focus (Forum & Focus)
Apr. 25, 2008
Show Yoo the Door
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - John Yoo and the other Justice Department lawyers were an integral part of a criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. laws and deserve to be disbarred.
By Marjorie Cohn
This article appears on Page 6
On April 1, a secret 81-page memo written by former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo in March 2003 was made public. In that memo, Yoo advised the Bush administration that the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel would not enforce U.S. criminal laws, including federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming and stalking in the detention and ...
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