Obama administration backs immunity for author of Bush torture memos

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In legal arguments before a federal court in San Francisco Friday, the Obama administration stepped in to defend one of most notorious figures in the Bush administration, John Yoo, author of legal memoranda used to justify torture and indefinite detention without trial as part of the "war on terror."

The intervention makes clear that the Obama administration opposes any serious effort to shed light on the attacks against democratic rights carried out by its predecessor or to hold any officials of the previous administration accountable for their actions.

Moreover, its court interventions amount to a defense of the Bush administration's assertions of quasi-dictatorial presidential powers.

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