Then and Now: Joseph Goebbels and John Yoo

THEN and NOW

Joseph Goebbels:

• Propaganda Minister for Hitler regime
• Writer
• War criminal

John Yoo:

• Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Bush regime
• Law professor
• War criminal

Question to Joseph Goebbels:
If the Führer deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of that person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

Question to John Yoo:
If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of that person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

Goebbels: I think it depends on why the Führer thinks he needs to do that.

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

Actual quotes from a December 1, 2005 debate in Chicago between Doug Cassel, Notre Dame professor and human rights legal scholar, and John Yoo, Berkeley law professor and author of infamous legal memo justifying presidential powers to torture U.S. captives around the world.