January 28, 2009

NOTE THAT THE HEADLINE ALSIO WORKS IF CHANGED TO ""yOU":

Obama lawyers set to defend Yoo (JOSH GERSTEIN, 1/28/09, Politico)

In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify.

But now President Obama’s incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court.

Next week, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a San Francisco federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Yoo by Jose Padilla, a New York man held without charges on suspicion of being an Al Qaeda operative plotting to set off a “dirty bomb.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 28, 2009 8:42 AM
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