Yesterday, former Office of Legal Counsel head Jay Bybee — who signed off on the infamous August 2002 “torture memo” — spoke at Yale Law School. The Yale Daily News reports that the “speaker had hardly finished his first sentence when about 25 Yale Law School students in the audience stood up and sheathed their heads in black trash bags, in imitation of hooded military prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.”
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