Post: Ashcroft Didn’t Sign Off on Yoo Pentagon Torture Memo | Talking Points Memo

More evidence that John Yoo was the most powerful deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s history. The Washington Post reports this morning that when Yoo issued his now-infamous March 14, 2003 memo to the Pentagon, neither Attorney General John Ashcroft, nor his deputy Larry Thompson “were aware.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=177572