Why is the Philadelphia Inquirer granting legitmacy (and a soapbox) to an architect of Bushs torture policy?
John Yoo is the Bush administration lawyer who authored the memo that served as a basis for U.S. military torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. This guy deserves a prison cell, not a cushy columnist gig. But according to the Inquirer’s editorial page director Harold Jackson (via TPM): “John Yoo has written freelance commentaries for The Inquirer since 2005, however he entered into a contract to write a monthly column in late 2008. I won’t discuss the compensation of anyone who writes for us. Of course, we know more about Mr. Yoo’s actions in the Justice Department now than we did at the time we contracted him. But we did not blindly enter into our agreement. He’s a Philadelphian, and very knowledgeable about the legal subjects he discusses in his commentaries.” President Obama’s Justice Department should indict and then prosecute decision makers — legal and executive — who enabled and ordered torture. And Yoo should be at the top of this list. However, Attorney General Eric Holder ha
