The column is titled, “Forget Watergate. Think Iran-Contra.” Link: www.nytimes.com/…
The two line biography reads: “John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general from 2001 to 2003, is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.”
That’s correct as far as it goes, but leaves out what he’s most famous for –his “Torture Memos” and attempts to circumvent the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg precedents, and attacks on the 4th amendment. President Obama reversed Yoo’s policies on his second day in office, and Yoo has been accused of war crimes by Glenn Greenwald and Baltazar Garzon.
The column is written as a prescription for keeping Trump in office and outof jail. John Yoo is indeed an expert on that. He has managed to retire to a professorship at a prestigious law school despite all the blood on his hands.
For what it’s worth, I sent the text above to the public editor of the New York Times. I think it’s OK to run columns by people like him, but not without reminding people of his background.