John Yoo Defends Bush Wartime Policy

-Contra Costa Times, July 21, 2010 by Steven Harmon
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15570014?nclick_check=1

“Presidential power is really designed to expand during periods of crisis brought on by foreign threats and national security concerns,” Yoo said.

-San Francisco Chronicle, Politics Blog, July 21, 2010 by Justin Ho
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=68428

[Yoo] said it will take 20 to 25 years to get a sense of where Bush will rank among the presidents. “But I also think people will not think of him as the worst president that you hear about all the time now. They have access to the archives, and they’ll see the kinds of context that there was around the decisions he had to make.”

-The Sacramento Bee, July 22, 2010 by Gina Kim
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/22/2906839/bush-administration-torture-memo.html#ixzz0uR8oqGEr

“It’s a wartime policy question,” Yoo said. “American presidents, when they know the threats the country is under, it’s no surprise they made the choices they did.”