There’s some discussion of whether John Yoo should lose his tenure at Berkeley now that the torture memos he wrote are out. I’ll address those in greater detail later. Anyways, I’m not sure how I come down on the tenure thing. I was fairly sympathetic because I thought this was basically Berkeley’s fault. They gave him tenure after he was a known war criminal. But it actually sounds like he had been on Berkeley’s staff in 1999 and got tenure then.
So it does seem like he violated legal ethics after having gotten tenure, so maybe it’s fair to go after that. That said, it would seem easier to just disbar him. And, the main important thing is that he be arrested. And really, once he’s in prison, who really cares if he has tenure?
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