CNN-War Criminal John Yoo returns to UC Berkeley

John Yoo returns to UC Berkeley for Fall 2009 after he left to the more conservative Chapman Law School campus for 6 months as a Visiting Professor.

John Yoo violated Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, the United States Code (USC) Title 18 Section 2340, and the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT).

Common Article 3 has been admittedly violated, 2002-2006, under the Military Commission Act (MCA) by the Supreme Court precedent Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006).

So, it is up to further litigation to determine what extent the August 1, 2002 memo and other Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memos were used by military personnel, and determine which agencies or individuals, i.e. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington and which agencies: CIA, DOD, OLC, were most culpable.

Are we ever going to see an indictment against any of these people: John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, George W. Bush, William Haynes, Dick Cheney, Philip Zelikow, etc?

Yoo argued that the United States is not bound by Geneva, or UNCAT in the "War on Terror" against "enemy combatants" More specifically, Yoo argues that the U.S. is not bound by the UNCAT treaty, due to a U.S. Reservation passed during the Reagan Administration. C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\UC Berkeley\Rhetoric 167 (Cohen, Stover)\CAT US Reservation.mht

John Yoo will appear on the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on January 11, 2010. http://www.thedailyshow.com/

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[rr93455]

This is not how the court system works. An indictment, is simply a "formal accusation" and anyone can and should face an indictment for ANY allegation. People are "innocent until proven guilty" under the U.S. constitution, logically, this means that John Yoo is first indicted, at a minimum, and then either acquited or charged. If you don't want to cooperate with an indictment then you have something to hide. Simple as that.

Using your logic, you don't have to indict anyone for anything.

[soshisujushinee7]

The "torture" memo is not Yoo's work alone. Addington, as well as attorney general Gonzales and deputy counsel Tim Flanigan, and many others contributed as well, with the mastermind being Dick Cheney

[jmshaw357]

@USPSAman Thank you!

[USPSAman]

if i was in the class i would take out that ass hole in the hood.

[seka1986]

Liberals are not open minded enough to let someone with a different opinion teach.

[seka1986]

They hired TANG as the attack dog because she is asian.

[seka1986]

YOO HOO

[cooks2006]

@ozzy3221

Why fuckwad? It's not like it's anywhere IMPORTANT

[ozzy3221]

Learn how to spell BerkEley, you fucking hick.

-Cal Student

[0spiker]

"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means. " Thomas Jefferson 1810