St. Thomas Law Professor Robert Delahunty's "Torture Memos"

Roger Cuthbertson explains the terrible significance of the "torture memos" written by former Bush Attorneys Robert Delahunty and John Yoo to St. Thomas Director of Communications Chato Hazelbaker on August 24, 2009, the first day of classes at the St. Thomas University's School of Law. Cuthbertson and St Thomas alum Bob Heberle were leading a group of citizens against torture that included Minnesotans from Amnesty International. On the same day that disturbing details from the 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report were released nationally revealing mock executions, threats to use power drills on prisoners and threats to kill prisoner's families, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a special prosecutor to investigate the abuses. At the same time a Minnesota group of concerned citizens called on the St. Thomas Law School to explain publicly why and how they hired Delahunty, an author of the torture memos that gave rise to the abuses. Delahunty himself has repeatedly refused to appear and explain his expansive views about presidential war powers in a memo he co-wrote with John Yoo [that has since been repudiated] allowing Bush to ignore the Geneva Conventions.

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He's a good professor. It is just that simple. The man went to Oxford and Harvard; his entire resume up until 2002 is superb. It may sound unintuitive, but by employing Delahunty, the St. Thomas School of Law is decreasing the chances that their future attorneys will exhibit the poor judgment that Delahunty himself once did.