John Yoo
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Yoo Can't Be Serious
Former Bush administration torture enabler John Yoo mocks Democratic voting blocs of non-high school graduates and people with graduate diplomas: READ MORE >>
The Accountable Presidency
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush By John Yoo (Kaplan, 544 pp., $29.95) Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State By Garry Wills (Penguin, 288 pp., $27.95) I. READ MORE >>
Should The Inky Make Yoo Talk?
Will Bunch is arguing that the Philadelphia Inquirer, which employs John Yoo as an occasional columnist, should pull his gig unless he talks to the federal investigators looking in to the Bush-era warrantless wiretapping program: READ MORE >>
Truth or Dare
BARACK OBAMA is trying to split the difference on torture. He wants to move forward—no messy dwelling on the Bush-Cheney era—except that he’ll look backward if forced. There will be no independent commission to hold top-ranking officials politically accountable. But, if Attorney General Eric Holder wants to prosecute the Bush lawyers who defended the legality of waterboarding—John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury—well, the president won’t stand in the way. READ MORE >>
Yoo Can't Be Serious
Michael Schaffer is the author of One Nation Under Dog. READ MORE >>
McJustice
During every presidential campaign for the last two decades, liberals have predicted an apocalypse in the Supreme Court. In their dire visions, as many as four justices are always about to retire, meaning that a Republican victory would turn the court radically to the right and lead to the certain overturning of Roe v. Wade. READ MORE >>
Yoo's On First
The House Judiciary Committee hearing with David Addington and John Yoo is proving to be exceptionally bitter and acrimonious even by House Judiciary Committee standards. If you're around C-SPAN, I recommend turning it on--this is entertaining stuff. Addington continually displays unveiled contempt for the members of the committee (I was about to say "thinly veiled," but even that would be too charitable). Yoo is slightly more polite, but no more helpful. READ MORE >>
Vanity Fair Comes Through Again
Marie Brenner has a great new piece in Vanity Fair on some of the lawyers, both military and civilian, defending Guantanamo detainees. Aside from fresh reporting into the Bush's administration's haphazardness in throwing together military tribunals, not to mention colorful portraits of some Washington jurists, Brenner has an excellent section on John Yoo. An excerpt: READ MORE >>
