{"id":197871,"date":"2008-01-04T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/04\/padilla-sues-john-yoo\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T22:32:00","slug":"padilla-sues-john-yoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/04\/padilla-sues-john-yoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Padilla Sues John Yoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite get how this would work legally, Yoo is probably indemnified by the fact that he worked for the DoJ, but the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-padilla080104,1,6749180.story?track=rss&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">he&#8217;s being sued by a man whose tortured into near insanity<\/a> is poetic justice, at least.<\/p>\n<p>My damages would be to have him imprisoned for a few years under the conditions that Padilla was.<\/p>\n<p>Or, we could just render him to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Then, or course, my delusions of civilized behavior kick in, and I say, &#8220;Send him to The Hague, where he can cool his heels with other war criminals&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t quite get how this would work legally, Yoo is probably indemnified by the fact that he worked for the DoJ, but the fact that he&#8217;s being sued by a man whose tortured into near insanity is poetic justice, at least. My damages would be to have him imprisoned for a few years under &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}