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John Yoo, the controversial former Justice Department official, canceled a scheduled appearance at this week\u2019s Federalist Society Convention in Washington D.C. The U.C. Berkeley law professor\u2019s decision to not appear comes as he faces a growing chorus from those demanding accountability for the authoring of the so-called \u201ctorture memos\u201d during the Bush Administration\u2019s \u201cwar on terror.\u201d Meanwhile, the Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility has not yet released a report on its inquiry into possibly ethical violations committed by Yoo and other torture memo authors. The delay has prompted increasing pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder by those seeking full transparency and accountability on the torture issue. President Barack Obama, though reversing some of his predecessor\u2019s policies, has continued with the so-called extraordinary rendition program while allowing for the DoD to suppress certain photos and documents related to torture. Jameel Jaffer is the Director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. Six years ago, Jaffer and his colleague Amrit Singh filed an historic Freedom of Information Act request to determine whether there was a pattern of torture in US-controlled prisons. That request and subsequent litigation was characterized earlier this year by the New York Times as “among the most successful in the history of public disclosure, with 130,000 pages of previously secret documents released”. Jameel Jaffer is the keynote speaker at an event this Sunday in Southern California called “Confronting US Sponsored Torture” and the co-author of \u201cAdministration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
GUEST: Jameel Jaffer, litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of the ACLU National Security Project, co-author of the book \u201cAdministration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n | the entire program John Yoo, the controversial former Justice Department official, canceled a scheduled appearance at this week\u2019s Federalist Society Convention in Washington D.C. The U.C. Berkeley law professor\u2019s decision to not appear comes as he faces a growing chorus from those demanding accountability for the authoring of the so-called \u201ctorture memos\u201d during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJameel Jaffer will be speaking at:
\nThe Islamic Institute of Orange County
\nSunday, November 15th, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
\n1220 N. State College Boulevard, Anaheim Ca 92806
\nRSVP at info@shuracouncil.org or 714-239-6473<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"