Here's looking at Yoo
John Yoo, formerly a lawyer for the Justice Department and now currently a professor at Berkeley Law school, penned an op-ed for the NY Times over the weekend which has garnered a great deal of attention in the blogosphere.
And while other bloggers focused on some of his more inane protestations, almost none of the criticisms I've read have pointed out another troubling aspect of just who John Yoo is.
Yes, he is the guy partly, perhaps even mostly, responsible for bringing about some of the worse violations of the law by the Bush administration. But he is also a man charged with teaching this same warped view of democracy to the next generation of scholars, lawyers and government administrators.
If what Yoo advocates in that op-ed is anything like what he teaches to his students, the future of our country looks mighty bleak.
For more reactions, check out the link above.
And while other bloggers focused on some of his more inane protestations, almost none of the criticisms I've read have pointed out another troubling aspect of just who John Yoo is.
Yes, he is the guy partly, perhaps even mostly, responsible for bringing about some of the worse violations of the law by the Bush administration. But he is also a man charged with teaching this same warped view of democracy to the next generation of scholars, lawyers and government administrators.
If what Yoo advocates in that op-ed is anything like what he teaches to his students, the future of our country looks mighty bleak.
For more reactions, check out the link above.
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