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Center for Torture Accountability lists St. Thomas Professor Delahunty as deserving probe
Delahunty helps John Yoo write memos making legal case for suspending constitutional rights and protections
The Center for Torture Accountability
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Bob Heberle
Robert Delahunty, whose Justice Department career spanned the presidency of Clinton as well as the early Bush years, found in his new colleague John Yoo a legal philosophy rooted in the same way of thinking as his own. They collaborated on a spate of memos for the White House and Justice Department, most of which have not yet been declassified.
Delahunty is not known to have coauthored Yoo's notorious "torture memo," which attempted to define torture so narrowly that the United States's interrogation techniques could not be classified as torturous. But he and Yoo did produce memos arguing that neither the Geneva Conventions nor other treaties and law would control U.S. treatment of prisoners during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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