Things are tough when a terrorist has to sue the man responsible for the skewed legaleese of the Bush Torture Doctrine. Damn Berkeley hippies!

"In the latest legal contest over the treatment of detained terrorist suspects, attorneys for Jose Padilla filed a suit in a California federal district court this morning against John Yoo, the former deputy assistant Attorney General whose legal opinions formed the basis for Padilla's detention and the interrogation techniques used against him that the attorneys call torture.

Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who converted to Islam and attended terrorist training camps in Central Asia during the 1990s, has risen to prominence in the legal fight for rights of detainees, as a U.S. citizen kept in military custody as a suspected enemy combatant with ties to Al Qaeda.

In May 2002, Padilla was arrested coming through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport with $10,000 cash and a list of suspected Al Qaeda agents. Soon after, he was held in New York and later taken to a military brig in South Carolina, where he remained for three and a half years without being charged-because, the Bush administration argued, he was a known terrorist with ties to Al Qaeda who was behind a plot to attack the U.S. with a so-called dirty bomb, or radioactive device.

While in detention, Padilla alleges, in this suit and others filed previously, he was routinely subjected to torture that was authorized as legal and defensible by Yoo."