Wednesday, April 2, 2008

John Yoo's Torture memo declassified

Many of you are working on papers related to torture and will probably find it helpful to take a look at the newly declassified John Yoo torture memo from 2003. We have known that these memos existed, but had not seen the text itself. It is now available.

Washington Post

New York Times

Balkinization

Text of Memo Part I

Text of Memo Part II

The position of those inside the DoD who disagreed with the Yoo (and final) torture rules.

2 comments:

jcmiller said...

and now the former Attorney general is having trouble finding a job...I wonder why? here is the the link to the story-
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/washington/13gonzales.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=us&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Samuel Chase said...

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-yankeesinjuries&prov=ap&type=lgns

Looks like he found a pretty good job, starting shortstop for the Yankees.