Yoo and Academic Freedom
John Yoo’s Dean writes a memo on Yoo’s academic freedom.
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
John Yoo’s Dean writes a memo on Yoo’s academic freedom.
Trent Lott’s first time. Now there’s something you didn’t want to think of.
There’s one source for the ABC news story that is not CIA. As rincewind notes, one of the sources refers to a “we” who received these briefings. It’s possible the source from inside the briefings is either Andy Card or Richard Myers.
McClatchy reports that yet another torture bombshell–DOJ IG’s report on FBI complaints about the torture at Gitmo–is soon to be published. All of this seems to be happening in pretty quick succession, don’t you think?
ABC’s story on the detailed briefings the Principals’ committee received on the torture of top detainees seems designed to focus the attention of the torture tape inquiry on the top lawyers in the Administration who had a motive to approve the destruction of the torture tapes.
The Stanford Advocate reported today something we’ve known for years: Lieberman campaign incompetence–and not any malfeasance from the Lamont campaign–was the cause of Lierberman’s website crash on primary day in 2006. But that doesn’t close the legal questions behind the primary. We still have heard nothing about the FEC complaint Lamont’s campaign filed in response to Lieberman’s $367,000 petty cash fund.
Wexler asks the questions we’ve all been asking: For what has all the blood and money been for? And what will victory look like?
Mark Schauer gets it right on FISA: our Constitution and our privacy are worth fighting for.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has actually gotten through some of the pro-war spin, and to some real resolutions that may move us closer to ending this infernal war.
Conyers would like to have a chat with John Yoo.