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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:00 AM

John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power

Bush's war crimes theorist claims that the Supreme Court protected "Al Qaeda terrorists" who were "captured fighting against the U.S." Both claims are false.

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  • Tuesday, June 17, 2008 05:09 AM

    How could a Berkeley Law Professor be wrong?

    If John Yoo were such a war criminal, why would UC Berkeley have him on the faculty of their law school?

    Unless Berkeley Law fires John Yoo, all decent, reasonable, mild-mannered, controversy-avoiding Americans must reject Glenn Greenwald's wild claims about "torture," "war crimes," "standing violation of international treaty," "massive affront to human dignity," "degradation of the values of the American republic," and all of that other nonsense.

    And of course, Berkeley shouldn't ever fire Yoo because he hasn't done anything wrong. How do we know? Because he's a Berkeley Law professor!

    You say "insane circular logic," I say "tomahto."

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