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dpibel

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2. Torture Memo Yoo, they called him, back in the day

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 25, 2026, 10:42 PM

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I'm as puzzled as you are what this is doing here.

Especially if you read the thing. It's all, "No, dude. Like, Ukraine is kinda wrong. But Venezuela? Totally cool."

Yoo has always been a hack, and it's a sad state of affairs when he works for UC Berkeley.

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