John Yoo, a well-known conservative lawyer and expert on presidential power, is set to assist a Justice Department investigation into former high-ranking federal officials who were involved in investigations into President Donald Trump.
Background on Yoo
Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, previously served as the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush. He is most known for authoring the “torture memos” used for detainees after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Yoo will act as an intermittent consultant, or special government employee, on constitutional issues for the investigation, which is being led by conservative attorneys Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing in the Southern District of Florida.
The investigation is looking at possible cases against Trump foes, including former CIA Director John Brennan, who has not been charged with any crime but has been under investigation.
The addition of Yoo to the investigation is likely to raise new questions about the scope of the probe, which some sources describe as a grand conspiracy stretching from the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 to the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.
Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.
