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Government

Apr. 23, 2009

Law Professor Debates Bush Era Torture Memos

John Yoo, a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law, participated in a lively debate at the school's Orange campus days after the Obama Administration released controversial Justice Deparment memos.

By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer

ORANGE - Days after the Obama administration released controversial memos from the Bush Justice Department authorizing CIA torture, former top Justice official John Yoo, one of the legal architects of the Bush era policy, participated in a lively debate Tuesday at Chapman University School of Law. Yoo is a visiting professor at the school.

Over occasional shouts of "war criminal" and "you should be...

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