John Yoo is famous, although probably not for the reasons he would like. As the author of the notorious 2003 “torture memo’’ that authorized American forces to waterboard enemy combatants, the University of California law professor earned himself a special place in liberal hell.
I’ll spare you the heavy breathing from the central press and public radio, and cut directly to a statement issued by Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild: “John Yoo’s complicity in establishing the policy that led to the torture of prisoners constitutes a war crime under the US War Crimes Act. John Yoo should be disbarred and he should not be retained as a professor of law at one of the country’s premier law schools. John Yoo should be dismissed from Boalt Hall and tried as a war criminal.’’
