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Chicago Trib: Padilla sues Yoo over torture. "In the latest legal contest over the treatment of detained terrorist suspects, attorneys for Jose Padilla filed a suit in a California federal district court this morning against John Yoo, the former deputy assistant Attorney General whose legal opinions formed the basis for Padilla's detention and the interrogation techniques used against him that the attorneys call torture." Via Paul Kiel.
Update: The NYT adds: " ... The suit is based in part on a recent book by Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who, while serving in the Justice Department in 2003 and 2004, disavowed some of Mr. Yoo’s work. In the book, 'The Terror Presidency' (W.W. Norton), Mr. Goldsmith wrote that two of Mr. Yoo’s memorandums were 'legally flawed' and 'tendentious in substance and tone.'"