http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/John_YooFind stories, videos, and photos about John Yoo from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:22:59 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/POLITICS/07/10/bush.surveillance/tztop.wiretapping.file.gi.jpghttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/John_Yoo14433Find stories, videos, and photos about John Yoo from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/10/bush.surveillance/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/10/bush.surveillance/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated after the September 11 terrorist attacks relied on a "factually flawed" legal analysis inappropriately provided by a single Justice Department official, according to a report to Congress on Friday.Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:16:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/torture.bush.lawyers/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/torture.bush.lawyers/index.html#cnnSTCTextA coalition of progressive groups sought Monday to have 12 Bush administration lawyers disbarred for their roles in crafting the legal rationale for so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that many view as torture.Mon, 18 May 2009 16:09:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/05/torture.memos/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/05/torture.memos/index.html#cnnSTCTextA preliminary internal report on the Justice Department investigation into the authors of the Bush administration's so-called "torture memos" does not call for criminal prosecutions, but indicates the government might urge state bar associations to take sanctions against the memo writers, according to two government sources familiar with the report.Wed, 06 May 2009 02:05:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/16/spain.guantanamo/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/16/spain.guantanamo/index.html#cnnSTCTextProsecutors will recommend that a Spanish court drop its investigation of six former officials in the administration of U.S. George W. Bush for alleged torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Spain's attorney general said Thursday.Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:57:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/29/gonzales.spain.gitmo/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/29/gonzales.spain.gitmo/index.html#cnnSTCTextA senior Spanish judge has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether key Bush aides should be charged with crimes over the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a lawyer said Sunday.Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:38:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/16/cheney.government/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/16/cheney.government/index.html#cnnSTCTextDick Cheney has finally found the limits of government power.Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:58:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/02/justice.memos.released/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/02/justice.memos.released/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Obama administration Monday released nine previously secret internal Justice Department memos and opinions defining the legal limits of government power in combating terrorism.Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:33:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/26/interrogations.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/26/interrogations.hearing/index.html#cnnSTCTextTwo former White House insiders who have been described as key architects of the Bush administration's interrogation policy proved to be uncooperative witnesses as they testified before Congress for the first time.Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/06/cheney.congress/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/06/cheney.congress/index.html#cnnSTCTextA House of Representatives committee has subpoenaed Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff as part of its investigation into the treatment of suspected terrorists, the White House confirmed Tuesday.Wed, 07 May 2008 15:14:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/02/interrogation.memo/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/02/interrogation.memo/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe Justice Department has declassified a 2003 legal memo that said U.S. criminal laws and international treaties did not apply in the military treatment and interrogations of "enemy combatants" taken from the battlefield and held outside the United States.Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:14:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/25/king.brokengovernment/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/25/king.brokengovernment/index.htmlThe Republican-controlled Congress that has largely given President Bush his way in post-9/11 America -- and largely kept silent even when his actions offended -- is now beginning to challenge the administration about the expanding role of the executive branch.Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:04:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/08/hilden.torture/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/08/hilden.torture/index.htmlAt this year's graduation at the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, about one-quarter of graduates wore red armbands. They were protesting Boalt law professor John Yoo's co-authorship of a memorandum written in 2002, when he served in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:40:00 EDT