Subject: John Yoo

• Beating around the Bush, or not, in Irvine

  Good news for those of us who have never seen the power of a monarchy in action, and the servility it demands of its subjects. President Bush is extending his weekend trip to California, and will be visiting scenic Irvine on Monday. According to the Register, "Bush will speak to the Orange County Business Council between 8 and 9 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Irvine". He'll be talking about immigration reform. So, if you want to get a look at the president... well, unless you're one of the preselect

  April 21, 2006

• Torture Memo Author Finds Friends and Foes at Chapman U

  Perhaps some of you have a conservative uncle who says stupid things. You know, like the U.S. is not in debt to China, or that Barack Obama is a socialist or that George W. Bush won his presidential elections. Mine recently repeated the Bill O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh/Attila the Hun yarn about all the students and professors at UC Berkeley being flaming liberals. I tried to politely bring up the stuntmeisters known as the Berkeley College Republicans, who in 2003 famously held an Affirmative Action

  February 16, 2009

• Letters

  "Two cover stories about comic books in one year. Since when did OC Weekly become a publication for nerds?"

  October 18, 2007

• Im a Complete Intellectual Fraud

  January 20, 2005

• Spain, Chapman University Debaters Are Out to Get John Yoo

  So the big question when John Yoo speaks at Chapman University next week about presidential power is: Will he be shackled? Probably not, seeing as how this is not Spain, but were Orange within the Iberian Peninsula nation and NATO ally, he'd be under criminal indictment for sanctioning torture at Guantánamo. The Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law's presence at Chapman certainly has sparked debate, and not just the one he's participating in Tuesday morning.The National Lawyer

  April 15, 2009

• More Groups Sign Statement Damning FBI for Spying on Mosques

  FBI Director Robert MuellerThe National Lawyers Guild--last seen in Clockwork four hours ago in relation to a debate it is hosting at Chapman University concerning visiting professor John Yoo signing off on torture while advising the Bush White House--is doing some signing off of its own. It's joined the 44 groups that have signed a statement blasting the FBI for recent incidents involving the use of informants and spying on Islamic mosques.The issue came to a head in February following the high

  April 15, 2009

• More Join Chapman U's Debate on John Yoo Torture Memos

  Clockwork informed you yesterday about controversial law professor John Yoo being at the center of two upcoming Chapman University School of Law debates, one he is participating in and another that he is not participating in. When it comes to Saturday's "Forum on National Security, Rule of Law & Torture: The Torture Memos of John Yoo," which the National Lawyers Guild hosts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Kennedy Hall, Rooms 237 A&B, we'd noted the speakers Include Larry Everest, author of Oil

  April 16, 2009

• F. Yoo!

  February 10, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  January 20, 2005

• No Moore!

  December 9, 2004

• Yoo in Clear or Not So Fast?

  World events are moving so fast and furious, one wonders how participants in the Saturday and Tuesday Chapman University School of Law debates featuring visiting professor and Bush White House torture enabler John Yoo at the center of each are keeping up with their talking points.CBSNews.com Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen: What a remarkably good day it has been for Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and Jay Bybee (who is now, inexplicably, a federal judge). In the span of just a few hours, those ignominiou

  April 17, 2009

• The Heat is Back on John Yoo

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo before his Chapman debate.The April 21 morning "terror memo" lawyer John Yoo appeared at the Chapman University debate, President Barack Obama said it would be up to his attorney general whether to prosecute former Bush administration advisors like Yoo. Since that day in Memorial Hall, the heat has turned up on AG Eric Holder to push the case forward, the U.S. Senate is leaning toward its own probe and, as many believed would happen, Spain's top investigative jud

  May 1, 2009

• Justice Dept. Inquiry: Chapman U's John Yoo Is a Shitty Lawyer

  Chapman University's favorite torture enabler and "Fletcher Jones Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law," the infamous John Yoo, should face discipline according to his previous employer, the U.S. Justice Department. A New York Times story this morning reports that an internal Justice Dept. inquiry found that Yoo's legal arguments authorizing the use of waterboarding and other forms of hash interrogation practices--commonly known in the English language as "torture"--were so woefully lacking i

  May 6, 2009

• Chapman Law Dean Shifts From One Controversy to Another

  Photo by Christopher VictorioJohn C. Eastman (right) listens as John Yoo debates at Chapman last month.The last time you read a Navel Gazing post that mentioned John C. Eastman, dean of Chapman University's School of Law, it was in reference to him teaming with the university's visiting law professor and Bush White House "torture memo" author John Yoo in April to debate two other Chapman law profs in Memorial Hall about presidential power in wartime. One thing Eastman rejected that day was a gov

  May 7, 2009

• More Controversy Dogs Yoo Amid Gig at "Teensy Joke of a College"

  Photo by Christopher VictorioYoo moves from "teensy joke" to Philly writing gig.Greg Sargent's The Plum Line blog on WhoRunsGov.com, a Washington Post site that runs online biographies of D.C. "players and personalities," has an interesting post on Bush White House torture memo writer John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor finishing up his spring semester visiting professor gig at Chapman University in Orange. In addition to those jobs, Yoo has been contracted since 2008 to write a monthly

  May 12, 2009

• La Habra Octomom Nadya Suleman Is Ready to Rocto Your World

  May 14, 2009

• What the Hell Happened to the Anti-War Movement?

  Photo by Christopher VictorioA small piece of the Orange County peace movement at Palm and Glassell.It was unusually warm around 11 a.m. today in Orange and the spectacle was unusually jarring at Palm and Glassell: a dozen or fewer anti-war protesters, ranging from college age to their grandparents, wearing orange "No torture" buttons and politely hoisting signs like the one that read, "Thank Yoo for Torture!"That's jarring because of the body count: a dozen or fewer anti-war protester

  April 21, 2009

• John Yoo Stars in a Most Civilized Debate on Torture

  Photo by Christopher VictorioAs John Yoo makes his case, John C. Eastman is hard at think.Two days after Barack Obama's chief of staff said the administration was not inclined to back prosecutions against Bush lawyers who signed off on torture, the president backed off that statement today, saying he would leave that up to his attorney general. If this reversal bunched John Yoo's BVDs, he sure wasn't showing it inside Chapman University's Memorial Hall, where the controversial UC Berkeley law pr

  April 21, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 4/21

  Chapman Dialogue Debate with John Yoo, 11 a.m.Okay, so this isn't technically going on tonight. It's actually going on right now. But if you're not too busy this morning, we suggest heading over to give this debate a listen. Yoo is currently a visiting professor at Chapman Law, and during his time working with the Bush administration as legal council he authored the infamous "Torture Memos" defending water-boarding and other "enhanced interrogation techinques." This one could get heated, folks!

  April 21, 2009

• Awesome Criminal of the Week, Pt. Douche

  Yoo, Douche.This tale of crime and no punishment has gone back and forth so many times that it's tempting to ignore this latest development, but John Yoo, Orange County's favorite torture enabler, may be back in deep doo-doo over his role in providing the legal justification for the Bush administration's practice of torturing terrorist suspects. Ever since President Obama stated that no government official was "above the law," speculation has abounded that Yoo, a Berkeley law professor who fled

  June 17, 2009

• Padilla vs. Yoo: First of Many Such Cases to Come?

  Nick Schou blogged last week about a San Francisco federal judge having ruled that John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor who just finished a stint as a visiting professor at Chapman Law School, can "be held personally responsible for the indefinite military detention and alleged torture of an American citizen who was suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda." The U.S. citizen in question, Jose Padilla, is the alleged "Dirty Bomber" who was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002 and charged with plot

  June 22, 2009

• Dumb Aussies Can't Punk John Yoo Properly

  So the Left has been all atwitter (and remember the days when that word didn't have a social-network meaning) about the below video, in which some Australian comedians interrupted a class at Chapman University two weeks ago of visiting professor John Yoo, he of the infamous Dubya-era war memos. What's most disturbing isn't that my alma mater invited Yoo to teach a class, that the students would applaud in his defense, or that the Aussies resorted to such a cheap visual (did the guy really have t

  July 28, 2009