Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo's "Torture Memos"

"Exactly 10 years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who at the time was the assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here) that will forever be known as the “torture memos.” Also identified as the “Bybee memos,” because of Bybee’s signature on them, they were in fact written primarily by John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who worked as a lawyer in the OLC from 2001 to 2003."