Professor Yoo provided the administration with the
legal cover in felt it needed to torture prisoners in a memo claiming that the law didn't apply to them. He is the classic apologist, telling the leader that it is O.K. do to something even when it is clearly wrong.
There is very little doubt in my mind that hundreds of people have been brutally tortured because of what this law professor wrote when it mattered.
I have little or no doubt that he will not be held legally responsible for his actions in any way. But, should he be? Shouldn't we punish the master minds and not the people who carry it out? Shouldn't we impose higher standards on people who degrees who get paid to exercise moral judgment for our country, instead of the people who just follow orders?