Turning John Yoo into the poster child for the torture regime misses the point and relieves other officials of responsibility. John Yoo was not a mastermind but a mere instrument - a tool - in the Bush administration's arsenal to abolish constraints on our treatment of detainees and to implement torture methods. These recent reports that Cheney, Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Powell, etc. -with the knowledge and approval of Bush |