Summary
Along with the Iraq War, the CIA's "renditions" and "black sites" greatly add to what Julianne Smith of the Center for Strategic and International Studies calls "the rather dark shadow [cast] on our relationship with our European allies," and much of the rest of the world. A University of California law professor, Yoo, as the 2002 deputy chief of the Justice Department's Office of Counsel, became the chief legal architect of the Bush administration's claim that the president has unlimited unilateral power to conduct the war on terrorists as he sees fit-including the infliction of torture by the CIA, operating with "special powers" from Bush.
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Architect of Torture
The rush of attention on June 26, when the CIA released 700 pages of what it internally calls its "crown jewels" detailing lawless acts-many of them dangerously reckless crimescommitted from the 1950s through the 1970s, led General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, to explain smoothly: "That was a very different era-a very differe...
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