It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Philadelphia Inquirer has hired John Yoo to be a columnist and write monthly for what used to be the newspaper of record in Pennsylvania.
Yoo is the infamous author of the legal opinions that gave Bush legal cover to authorize torture. Yoo is not just a person who has a different viewpoint. He is a person whose actions justified the illegal and immoral torture of prisoners held by the United States.
Yoo's role as the legal author of the Bush/Cheney torture policy has justifiably put him at risk of arrest by many nations for war crimes. By hiring Yoo as a columnist, the Inquirer is legitimizing his criminal actions.
If you agree that torture advocates have no place on the editorial pages, please join us in telling the Philadelphia Inquirer in no uncertain terms, "Keep John Yoo off the pages of the Inquirer. Terminate his contract immediately." http://www.keystoneprogress.org/...
It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Philadelphia Inquirer has hired John Yoo to be a columnist and write monthly for what used to be the newspaper of record in Pennsylvania.
Yoo is the infamous author of the legal opinions that gave Bush legal cover to authorize torture. Yoo is not just a person who has a different viewpoint. He is a person whose actions justified the illegal and immoral torture of prisoners held by the United States.
Yoo's role as the legal author of the Bush/Cheney torture policy has justifiably put him at risk of arrest by many nations for war crimes. By hiring Yoo as a columnist, the Inquirer is legitimizing his criminal actions.
I agree with Philadelphia Daily News columnist Will Bunch who wrote, "Last Sunday's column by Yoo should also be his last, period. While Yoo is a free man who is thus free to utter his detestable viewpoints on any public street corner, the Inquirer has no obligation to so loudly promote these ideas that are so far outside of the mainstream...Torture advocates are not the kind of human beings who belong regularly on a newspaper editorial page, officially sanctioned."
If you agree that torture advocates have no place on the editorial pages, please join us in telling the Philadelphia Inquirer in no uncertain terms, "Keep John Yoo off the pages of the Inquirer. Terminate his contract immediately." http://www.keystoneprogress.org/...