former top Pentagon official called for Yoo's dismissal in 2008

Law schools have an obligation to do more than teach lawyers to offer legal advice without regard for the consequences of their counsel. I also think that law schools ought to model behavior for their students and think very seriously about the pedagogical impact of retaining a man on the faculty whose legal advice and scholarship produced such disastrous policy, to say nothing of the suffering of those on the receiving end of Yoo's ideas.

Glenn Greenwald recalls Phillip Carter's post, "Blame Berkeley" 
and examines the differences between Candidate and President Obama's 
positions on torture.

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