Philadelphia Inquirer Hires Torture Memo Author John Yoo to Write Column

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Philadelphia Inquirer Hires Torture Memo Author John Yoo to Write Column

The letters to the editorial page of the Philadelphia Inquirer are on fire. People are writing in, overwhelmingly opposed to the newspaper’s hiring of John Yoo as a columnist, the former Justice Department lawyer who helped write what’s come to be known as the torture memo that claimed the treatment of prisoners amounted to torture only if it caused the same level of pain as “organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death.”

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In your face, We Tortured, get over it.

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1. You have to admit, Mr. Yoo probably knows a lot of the inside

thinking going on during the Bush years.

[MrSlayer]

2. He's been writing for them since 2005.

The Inky's editorial page editor responds.

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