I’ve already told my kids - after I turn 80, if I choose to subsist on red wine and chocolate, I don’t want any flak from them about it.
John Yoo “gave legal justification to the use of torture.” However, torture as conducted by the Bush administration was still a FEDERAL CRIME punishable by 20 years in prison, or the death penalty if the torture victim is killed (many were).
President George W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney actually confessed on national TV to conspiracy to commit torture, which is also a crime. I don’t recall if anyone even suggested impeachment and prosecution of them and other policymakers such as Yoo.
Let’s hope we don’t go there.