What Happened to John Yoo's Emails?

—By Kevin Drum

| Thu Feb. 25, 2010 5:00 PM PST

Hmmm. "Most of" John Yoo's emails from his stint writing torture memos for the Justice Department were deleted before he left. You know, it takes a pretty deliberate effort to delete emails and make them nonrecoverable. CREW wants an investigation.

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