by William Hughes
On Wednesday evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Before the controversial law professor could get into his talk, however, it was interrupted by two activists. They stood to his right in front of the auditorium and held a banner, which read: "TRY YOO FOR TORTURE." The protesters refused to sit down, but they were not arrested and remained in the same position during Yoo's entire speech. Yoo had served in the Bush-Cheney administration in the Justice Department. He authored two controversial legal memos which claimed sweeping presidential power to commit torture. The two memos are referred to by his critics--and there are many--as the "torture memos."