Progressive Radio host Steve Lendman asks why any sensible UC Berkeley law student would choose classes taught by Torture Professor John Yoo, whose infamous Bush/Cheney administration memos "claimed legal justification for what international law categorically prohibits at all times, under all circumstances, with no allowed exceptions."
As deputy assistant attorney general, Yoo sanctioned executive power to:
- ignore international, constitutional and U.S. statute laws;
- indefinitely detain and torture so-called "enemy combatants";
- deny habeas and due process rights, consigning detainees to kangaroo court injustice; and
- justify virtually anything to combat real or imagined enemies.
Last week, the professor defended the ultimate war crime, "the act of aggression with or without a declaration of war, on the territory, vessels or aircraft of another State."
