-U.S. News & World Report, February 18, 2010 by Alex Kingsbury
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/02/18/john-yoo-defends-torture-memo-blasts-bush-administration.html
The American people would have thought differently about our opinions if they had known about the al Qaeda plots that were disrupted and the people who were captured, information that could only have been gathered through interrogation.
-The New York Times, February 19, 2010 by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/us/politics/20justice.html
Mr. Yoo denied that the White House or the Central Intelligence Agency, which had requested the legal opinion, had exerted any pressure on him in his legal findings. “I don’t think of them as being particularly aggressive,” Mr. Yoo said, adding, “I had never felt that anybody was pushing us in one direction or another.”
-NPR, February 23, 2010 Host Neal Conan
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124007547
We had to do that job in an area where the law was written in very vague terms. The statute contained no examples of what was prohibited, interrogation methods that were close to the line. And there were very few judicial precedents, almost none at the time.