Crushing Children's Testicles

John Choon Yoo ( http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/ ,
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profil...ile.php?facID...
) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley
School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and
is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to
President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea
with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa
Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett.

Douglass Cassel (
http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html ) is the
Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil
and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.

The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof.
Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:


""
Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture
somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child,
there is no law that can stop him?

Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in the
August 2002 memo.

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do
that.

""

You can listen to the above exchange on the below audio clip:

http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/downlo...oo_on_torture...
(317,712 bytes)

The below audio clip is a longer recording which includes the above
exchange:

http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3

See also:

"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture
Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us):

http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html