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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

War crimes: Calls to investigate John Yoo as alleged war crimminal

This is the guy who said it was OK to commit torture.We previously covered Mr. Yoo suggestions. Here's an update.

Scott Horton, president of the New York-based International League for Human Rights, called last month for Yoo and others to be investigated as war criminals for their part in drafting the memos.

And in a lengthy analysis to be published in the Columbia Law Review this fall, Jeremy Waldron, an author, scholar and Yoo’s former colleague at the UC Berkeley School of Law, said that the “defense of torture” by Yoo and other prominent lawyers had caused “dishonor for our profession.”