Charlie Rose with Lee Hsien Loong; Kenneth Roth & John Yoo (July 13, 2005)
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
Like most Republicans who want to make sure health care reform dies screaming, Karl Rove has now suddenly discovered that public opinion "matters" . Americans are now seeing the damage that polls and focus groups can inflict on White House decision-making. President Barack Obama is no longer shaping the public dialogue on health-care reform. Instead, he is losing control of his agenda and...
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
John Yoo takes the the WSJ opinion pages to provide a highly disingenuous and legally lacking defense of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program in answer to last week's inspectors general report. From the outset, there is one critical to keep in mind: post-9/11, Congress was ready and willing to provide the administration everything it said it needed to protect the country, and in fact...
Unbossed (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
The recently released inspectors general report on Bush's warrantless surveillance programs had almost nothing positive to say about them or John Yoo, who provided specious legal justifications for those programs on demand. Today Yoo lashes back at the inspectors in a Wall Street Journal op-ed . His matrix of illogic is so dense that the piece appears to be intended to make your eyes bleed. In the...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
I wrote about the Inspectors' General unclassified report on the Bush administration's terrorist eavesdropping program here and here . In my posts I concentrated on the part of the report (pages 31-36) that was highlighted by the New York Times regarding the program's purported inefficacy. In another part of the report (pages 10-14), the Inspectors General are critical of then-Deputy Assistant Attorney...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
In the WSJ this morning, John Yoo provides a spirited and convincing defense against the ill-conceived suggestion that President Bush may have broken the law (i.e., FISA) by authorizing warrantless electronic surveillance in wartime. This claim was revived in the report by five inspectors general last week (see my post, here). As John writes: Every federal appeals court to address the question has...
Stress (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
Plagerized entirely from Jim Bovard: Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir “so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.” Bush did not reveal if John Yoo would be the co-author. Bush spoke to an “invited audience [...]
Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | 03/17/2009
CPL already noted Field Negro’s response to Shelby Steele, but I took a crack at the dude over at TAPPED today and I wanted to share. Steele’s attempts to maximize conservative white innocence got a sprinkle of John Yoo in his op-ed yesterday for the Wall Street Journal. Steele says America “suffered” in the sixties from [...]
2008 Democratic Convention Watch (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Arlen voted for the stimulus package. He's 50/50 on EFCA. And then THIS : Dawn Johnsen is President Obama's nominee to head the DOJ Office of Legal Council . She's a great candidate. She could be considered the"anti-Yoo" for she will certainly work doggedly to clean up the mess that John Yoo made. Her hearing was held on February 25th, and things went reasonably well. The vote was supposed...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Protesters and police in Berkeley, California. read more
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
John Yoo’s name has become synonymous with what some on the left consider egregious unethical and illegal behavior on the part of the recently departed Bush administration. Today Yoo fired back, saying that the administration did what it had to do to protect the nation and what happened in Mumbai in November might have happened [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
John Yoo is a disgrace to this nation for his actions in promoting torture in the Bush Administration. This answer in a Q&A session tells you all you need to know about his man. Matt Yglesias: I’m just going to quote Orrin Kerr on this: John Yoo: “Now that I’m not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Although the Obama Administration disagrees with John Yoo's legal analyses, the Justice Department continues to defend Yoo in civil suits filed by former detainees. Politico reports:...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
In a California federal court, President Obama's Justice Department is defending former Bush official John Yoo, author of the so-called "torture memo." Yoo is being sued by Jose Padilla, currently serving 17 years in prison for conspiring to provide support...
CQ (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
It must have occurred to even John Yoo now that the secret warrantless wiretapping program wasn’t worth it.
Politico (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
A man Bush ordered detained without charge is suing John Yoo over the legal opinions he issued.
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