Former U.S. Official Arrested in Italy
by P.V. Maro
ROME - John C. Yoo, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was arrested on Tuesday in Milan, Italy, and is being held for possible extradition to Spain, where he and five other retired officials who served under former President George W. Bush are expected to be indicted by a Spanish court for violations of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Yoo, 41, is a visiting professor of Law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, California, on leave from the University of California Berkeley School of Law. He served in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003. Yoo authored memos permitting the use of torture. Torture is banned by both U.S. law and international conventions.

Milan prosecutor Andrea Spolini released a statement indicating that Yoo can be held for up to 90 days awaiting an indictment in Spain under the international standard of "Rompi Testiculo."

(Edited by Antonio Gramsci)

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happy financial fools day
check your zipper
and your constitution

News agency this was sort of attributed to objected and I've deleted it.

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ABC News Falls For It

 

The latest victim of the inevitable collision between the instantaneous internet and the April Fool's joke is ABC's Jake Tapper. [...]

So, Tapper jumped on ABC's internal news distribution system early this morning to alert the network that former Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo-- the author of controversial Bush Administration policy memos after 9/11-- had been arrested in Italy for "war crimes."