Protest Torture Advocate John Yoo

We're supposed to forget about him right? Kind of like after the fall of the Nazi regime we were supposed to forget about the officials who operated it. That's right, I forgot we're Americans and we don't torture. What's also interesting is that since Obama became president, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib have stopped being a controversy. I would also add that practices, never really ever considered controversial in the first place, such as solitary confinement are akin to torture. Under both presidents this maybe has not been agreed with by everyone in the public at large, but we seldom if ever hear anything condemning it as torture. There are other practices going on in prisons in the United States that are similar to torture: one of them that's been silenced, both here, and in still existing prison facilities operated by the US overseas, is force feeding. Prisoners going on hunger strike against inhumane conditions are treated with having foot long plastic feeding tubes forcefully stuffed down there nose.
Yoo was a lawyer under the Bush administration who wrote memos attempting to make torture seem legally acceptable so as to disguise and hide them from scrutiny, and condemnation. Yoo made sure that torture performed at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib wasn't recognized as being illegal which would have ended it. Perhaps, much like supporters of Obama who, today, look the other way when it comes to things like Guantanamo, prisons in the USA, and drone strikes, to name just a few things, we can go along and imitate the commander and chief as when he said, in response to pursuing criminal charges against prior Bush administration officials, that "we need to look forward not backwards".