Just as new details emerged on Monday, August 24 of CIA interrogators' abuse of prisoners involving mock executions, threatening prisoners with power drills, and choking them to the point of passing out, Associate Law Professor Robert Delahunty quietly resumed teaching fall classes on constitutional law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. Delahunty along with co-author John Yoo at the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) laid the cornerstone legal memo that gave the green light to "go to the dark side" as Dick Cheney was urging. The 2004 CIA Inspector General report is heavily redacted but it's apparently so disturbing that it led Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on this very same day to appoint a prosecutor-the same one looking at the destruction of the CIA torture tapes-to review the abuses, setting the stage for a probe that could lead to criminal charges of CIA personnel.
(An interview with Chris Hedges is coming in a later article! - promoted by Grace Kelly)
A friend of mine (and "Veteran for Peace") Bob Heberle sent the following hard hitting letter today to Thomas Mengler, Dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law questioning the Dean's stance in hiring and continuing to promote one of the legal architects involved in the Bush Administration's reinstituting the practice of torture.
