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DESCRIPTION:1:30 Press conference followed by protest in front of the Law School. 
 "Torture professor" John Yoo resumes teaching at UC Berkeley Law School on 
 Monday, August 17 after spending last year at Chapman College in Southern 
 California. While on leave from UC in 2001 Yoo worked for the DOJ and wrote 
 legal memos advising Cheney and Bush that torture, warrantless wiretapping 
 and suspension of posse commitatus--  use of the military on American Soil 
 and a violation of the Constitution-- were legal. Yoo was wrong; those 
 crimes are never legal. He is being sued by U.S. citizen Jose Padilla and 
 his mother for torture, and the Spanish courts are prosecuting him for the 
 torture of Spanish citizens. Meanwhile he writes for the Philadelphia 
 Inquirer, gives interviews and insists that the enhanced interrogation 
 techniques he approved, which have lead to the deaths of about 100 
 detainees and the torture of children, were justified and necessary to 
 protect America from terrorists. That's just plain wrong.  A coalition of 
 human rights, accountability, and social justice groups will show up to 
 protest his continuing employment at UC and to ask for his prosecution by 
 U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder. National Accountability Network, 
 CODEPINK, Progressive Democrats of America, National Lawyers Guild, 
 Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Bay Area Religious Campaign Against 
 Torture, others.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/12/18615535.php
SUMMARY:"Torture Professor" John Yoo Back at Cal
LOCATION:University of California Law School (Boalt Hall), College and Bancroft, 
 Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/12/18615535.php
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