John Yoo, author of the now-infamous 2002 torture memo allowing U.S. interrogators to use any measures short of causing organ failure or death, is unrepentant.
Although his memorandum — written when he worked at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — was overruled two years later, Yoo tells Legal Times its legacy lives on because he says subsequent memos have not substantially changed interrogation tactics.
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