-San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2010 by Carolyn Lochhead
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/16/MNA51BIQN7.DTL&type=printable
“The law doesn’t compel anyone to make any policy decision,” Yoo said. “The war in Iraq was legal. That doesn’t compel the choice to go to war.”
-NPR, All Things Considered, January 19, 2010 Host Madeleine Brand
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122734173
“You look at who most scholars think are our greatest presidents, men like Washington, Lincoln and FDR. These are presidents who were no shrinking violets. They embraced their power. They used their powers vigorously to attack the challenges of their day often, or sometimes, in direct conflict with the Congress and the Supreme Court. ”
-KGO AM 810, January 20, 2010 Host Gil Gross
http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=1667684&nId=15&spid=25697
“We were less than a year after 9/11 and the government had captured … people who really planned and executed the 9/11 attacks themselves and were responsible for planning other future Al Qaeda attacks. And the government, the CIA, came to the justice department and the White House and said, ‘What can we do that’s legal?'”
-The New York Times, January 21, 2010 by Walter Isaacson
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Isaacson-t.html
As the United States entered a semipermanent state of national emergency, marked by multiple wars and boosts in defense spending, power naturally flowed to the presidency, Yoo writes. The cold war brought forth one of the framers’ great fears, a large standing army in peacetime.