1. John Yoo: Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California, with [removed address available in article] (but a lawyer with the Pennsylvania bar from which he should be disbarred and would be if enough people demanded it) counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, wrote this memo promoting presidential power to launch aggressive war, and claimed the power to decree that the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming, and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war, and to announce a new definition of torture limiting it to acts causing intense pain or suffering equivalent to pain associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in loss of significant body functions will likely result. Yoo claimed in 2005 that a president has the right to enhance an interrogation by crushing the te##icles of someone's child. Yoo has been confronted in his classroom: video, and defended by the Washington Post, and again confronted in the classroom. 8 hearts.

Originally posted by nine-eyed-eel
reply to post by December_Rain

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I wish they really were war criminals...I wish their nails were caked with blood and the flesh of infants dripped from their nostrils...that would be a less-lame world than this one, where they are what they are and you find room to puff yourself up with moral indignation comparing yourself to them... but, to each his own...