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War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with John Yoo

UPDATE Aug. 17, 2010: Click for video news coverage from KTVU of UC Berkeley protest against John Yoo (lots of Code Pinkers were on the scene!) In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. - John Yoo John Yoo was Bush's Top Legal Lackey in helping to create the construct for torture. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo signed off on the legal opinions purporting the use of torture was legal as a part of the president's vast wartime powers. These legal opinions are most commonly referred to as the Torture Memo and have been a source of controversy and redesign of executive power.