(08-17) 17:16 PDT Berkeley, Calif. (AP) --
Police have arrested at least four people during a protest at the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Campus police made the arrests as protesters gathered Monday outside the UC Berkeley School of Law to call for the dismissal of John Yoo.
He's scheduled to begin teaching there after spending the spring semester at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County.
The arrests came after police asked the protesters to leave.
Yoo worked for the Bush administration from 2001 to 2003, when he helped craft legal theories for waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
The tenured professor has defended the controversial techniques, saying they were needed to protect the country from terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The Berkeley Daily Planet was a little more explicit.
Four generations of UC Berkeley law school alumni joined activists, community members and lawyers on the Boalt Hall steps to protest former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo’s return to campus Monday.
The group called for Yoo to be prosecuted and fired from his position as professor of law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law for writing memorandums which were used to justify extensive policies on detention and interrogation, even torture.
The local ABC affiliate KGO-TV San Francisco, CA covered the story as well.
The Wall Street Journal had this gem to add to the whole discussion:
“There is little doubt that John Yoo is a war criminal,” said civil rights attorney Dan Siegel, speaking outside Boalt Hall. “John Yoo went to Washington and created the ideological, political and legal basis for the torture of innocent people.”
Berkeley’s dean, Christopher Edley, has rejected calls to dismiss Yoo, saying the university doesn’t have the resources to investigate his Justice Department work, which involved classified intelligence.
The university does not have the resources to do a background check on a known war criminal? That's just a lie the university is using to justify their ongoing support for War Crimes. The United States is now a
pariah state where the power structure within American society openly supports war criminals and further violation of international law.
For those of you that would like to call the dean and let him know what you think of this, here is his contact information.
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Office: 215 Boalt Hall
Tel: 510-642-6483
Fax: 510-642-9893
Email Address:
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