4/18/2023 0 Comments Torture memorandaIf you have not read John Yoo’s recently-released "Torture Memo," and have not been as horrified and appalled as I am, I strongly urge you to read it in full. (IV) a complaint to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer calling for the dismissal of Professor Yoo for actions while on leave at the Office of Legal Counsel that are, et cetera. (C) participation in a conspiracy to violate U.S and international law by torturing detainees, detainees whose guilt in the acts of or even association with Al Qaeda was not only not proven but not even likely. ![]() (B) work performed for the Office of Legal Counsel sufficiently misleading to rise to the same level in a professional school as work that violates the principles of scholarly integrity reaches elsewhere in the university (A) a breach of professional legal ethics, with respect to the duty that a lawyer and above all a law school teacher who educates future lawyers owes his clients to inform them truthfully and completely of the state of the law (III) a complaint to Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer calling for the censure of Professor Yoo for actions while on leave at the Office of Legal Counsel that amount to one or more of: (II) no action, as Professor Yoo's "Torture Memo" and related work while on leave at the Office of Legal Counsel are protected under academic freedom or are otherwise not germane to his status at Berkeley. (I) no action, as Professor Yoo’s actions while on leave at the Office of Legal Counsel have been misrepresented in the press and on the internet, and he has been defamed. I ask you to instruct this committee to write of a public report to the Academic Senate no later than this Labor Day, advising the Senate of the pros and cons of actions that the Academic Senate might or might not take in the matter of Professor John Yoo, including but not limited to: I ask you to appoint to this special committee members of the faculty with expertise in moral philosophy, the role of the university, international relations, human rights, and constitutional law. I write to ask you to appoint a special committee to examine the matter of Professor John Yoo-the matter that Boalt Hall Dean Chris Edley has named "The Torture Memo and Academic Freedom"-the role played by John Yoo in the Bush administration’s policy of subjecting to torture not high-ranking Al Qaeda members with information about ticking bombs but low-level prisoners irrespective of their guilt or innocence or of any information suggesting their guilt or innocence. RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCHĬhair, Academic Senate, Berkeley DivisionĪs we discussed this morning, I write this as a consequence of reading what Boalt Dean Chris Edley calls the “Torture Memo” of Professor John Yoo-which horrified me. ![]() Anybody who wants posting privileges here, drop me a note at as well.ĭEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY So I sent off my letter ( ) to William Drummond, in his capacity as Chair of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California.Īny Berkeley community members who want to sign on, drop me a note at and I'll put you on the list.
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