Attorney Dan Siegel is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s law school from the era of the Free Speech movement. He points out that John Yoo’s writing of legal briefs as cover for torture by the Bush-Cheney regime is not a matter of “free speech”. It is a crime to use your position in violation of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights as well as the treaties that the US has signed as the law of the land, namely the Geneva Conventions. Various groups such as Code Pink Goldengate, National Accountability Action Network, the National Lawyers Guild, World Cant Wait, and Progressive Democrats of America joined together to challenge UC Berkeleys continued employment of Professor John Yoo. They called for him to be fired, disbarred, and prosecuted.
Holly Harwood of CODEPINK Golden Gate:
Ruth Fassenbaum, an activist member of the American Psychological Association, speaks out against torture by the Bush-Cheney regime and John Yoos role in providing legal cover for the US use of torture on prisoners.
Stephania Tang of World Can’t Wait speaking inside Boalt Hall:
