How much is The Philadelphia Inquirer paying Bushs torture memo man?
So, President Bush’s torture memo man John Yoo is now an Inquirer columnist. It’s not really much of a surprise coming on the heels of the revelation that the Inquirer pays former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum $1,750 to write a quickie column, about five times the going rate for that kind of work. It does, however, leave us wondering how much the Inquirer must be paying Yoo. The Philadelphia Daily News’ Will Bunch this week broke the story that the Inquirer had signed a contract with Yoo to write a monthly column. Bunch wrote that the Inquirer offered Yoo a columnist spot despite his status as the “conservative legal scholar whose tenure in the Bush administration as a top Justice Department lawyer lies at the root of the period of greatest peril to the U.S. Constitution in modern memory.” Yoo earned the condemnation of Bunch and many others while at the Justice Department because he, in Bunch’s words, “argued for presidential powers far beyond anything either real or implied in the Constitut
