Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal
Friday, June 20, 2008
John Yoo stands outside the Anglo-American legal tradition. His views lead to self-incrimination wrung out of a victim by torture. He believes a president of the US can initiate war, even on false pretenses, and then use the war he starts as cover for depriving US citizens of habeas corpus protection.
A US attorney general informed by Yoo�s memos even went so far as to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Constitution does not provide habeas corpus protection to US citizens.
Yoo�s animosity to US civil liberties made him a logical choice for appointment to the Bush Regime�s Department of Justice [sic], but his appointment as a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, shatters that university�s liberal image.
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