{"id":18764,"date":"2026-06-29T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=18764"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:32:16","slug":"professor-known-for-torture-memos-will-advise-conspiracy-probe-focused-on-perceived-trump-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=18764","title":{"rendered":"Professor known for \u2018torture memos\u2019 will advise conspiracy probe focused on perceived Trump foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By ERIC TUCKER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A conservative law professor known for his expansive views of presidential power and for decades-old memos that justified harsh interrogation techniques after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks says he will be advising a team of prosecutors investigating whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=18762\">Inmates take control of a North Carolina jail after overpowering correctional staff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Yoo confirmed in an email to The Associated Press on Monday that he would be assisting Joe diGenova, the former Justice Department prosecutor who was assigned in April to investigate whether officials, who over the last decade scrutinized Trump, participated in a criminal conspiracy against the Republican president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a lawyer. He\u2019s going to be helping us,\u201d diGenova said in a brief telephone interview about Yoo. He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>A law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Yoo was a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration who served as a lead author of the so-called \u201ctorture memos\u201d that government officials used to justify using \u201cenhanced interrogation\u201d techniques on potential terror suspects. The Justice Department later rescinded the memos.<\/p>\n<p>In the years since, he\u2019s remained a prominent proponent of broad executive authority, telling the AP in a 2020 interview that he had told Trump administration officials multiple times that a Supreme Court ruling which rejected Trump\u2019s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, opened the door to enormous new presidential power.<\/p>\n<p>The conspiracy investigation is being conducted in Florida, but the scope is unclear, as is whether any criminal charges will be brought.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=18760\">Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone users location history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have centered at least part of the probe on the long-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Investigators have issued a broad swath of subpoenas for records and conducted interviews related to the creation of an intelligence community assessment, released in January 2017, that found that Russia engaged in wide-ranging election interference to boost Trump over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 2019 report by special counsel Robert Mueller affirmed that Russia interfered on Trump\u2019s behalf and that the Trump campaign repeatedly welcomed the assistance, but it did not find sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Several subsequent investigations into the Russia probe have identified multiple errors into how it was conducted, and a former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty in 2020 to doctoring an email during the course of the inquiry. But none of the reviews have identified criminal misconduct by any senior law enforcement or intelligence official involved in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has nonetheless continued to demand retribution and has sought to punish top officials from that time at the FBI and CIA.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in a Fox News Channel interview in May what the Justice Department had done to address claims of a long-running conspiracy to bring down Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re investigating right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=18758\">2026 Big Bear eaglet Luna soars from nest a day after sibling Sandy flew off<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yoo\u2019s involvement in the investigation was earlier reported by Politico and CNN.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Yoo, a conservative law professor known for his views on presidential power, confirms he will advise a team investigating whether officials conspired against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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