John Yoo
The Tenth Anniversary of the First ‘Torture Memo’
Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed a two-page memorandum called “Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees.” The memorandum, drafted in part by John Yoo, is now best known as the first of the so-called “terror memos.” It argued that the government was exempt from the Geneva Conventions in any war […]
