John Yoo, a 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

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 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.

Investigation Details

The investigation has theorized a years-long conspiracy against President Trump and is looking at several former high-ranking federal officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan.

Yoo’s addition 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: KRDO (Colorado Springs metro) — read the source article.