As you know, John Yoo, a former official in the (George W.) Bush administration, is the “Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law” at Chapman University—on leave from UC Berkeley’s School of Law. It appears that he ditched Berkeley for OC to avoid all the protesters. Protesters? Yup, those zany Bay Area types object to the presence of one of the key defenders and promoters, within the Bush Administration, of the use of torture. Yoo, of course, was the author of the infamous “torture memos.” What a swell guy. If you’ve been following the news, then you know that people around the world are not waiting for the feet-dragging Obama administration to go after Yoo and the rest of the “Bush Six,” including Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, and Douglas J. Feith. Spain, for instance, has launched a criminal investigation into this crew. As Matt Coker explains today (Spain, Chapman U debaters are out to get John Yoo), Spanish posecutors
accuse The Bush Six of having given the green light to the torture and mistreatment of prisoners held in U.S. detention in "the war on terror," in the context of a pending proceeding before the Spanish court involving terrorism charges against five Spaniards formerly held at Guantánamo.CHAPMAN “YOO” EVENTS: Matt reports that, on the 18th (Saturday), the National Lawyers Guild (with which Dissenters have variously been associated over the years) will host a teach-in entitled “National Security and Torture: Human Rights, Rule of Law, and War Crimes; The Torture Memos of John Yoo.” (10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Chapman University School of Law's Kennedy Hall, Room 237.) According to Matt, “Panelists include Oil, Power and Empire author Larry Everest and Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute president Ann Fagan Ginger.” On April 21 (Tuesday),
Yoo … will be alongside John C. Eastman, dean and Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Law at Chapman's School of Law, debating Chapman law professors Katherine Darmer and Larry Rosenthal on "Presidential Power and Success in Times of Crisis."That event will be at 11 a.m. in Memorial Hall. (Tickets required. Go to Chapman's ticket office or call (714) 997-6812.)
