Years after his controversial defense of waterboarding, John Yoo stood by his decision recently, claiming the Constitution was still on his side — and spying on Americans is OK too.
Yoo, a Philadelphia native and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, spoke at Drexel University last weekend to discuss his hand in what has become known as the “torture memos” — the legal documentation used to defend former president George W. Bush’s use of waterboarding and other controversial enhanced interrogation techniques, which have since been criticized as forms of torture.
Yoo said he was still firmly in support of the precedents that the justice department he was apart of set — and said he would do it again.
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