John Yoo interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Opinion Journal, August 22, 2013 Bradley Manning stole some of America’s greatest secrets. He took them and gave them to a known anti-American website, WikiLeaks, run by Julian Assange, and that information has done irreparable harm to our national security.

John Yoo writes for The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2013 (registration required) The mishandling of Mr. Tsarnaev’s interrogation is clear. If the Obama administration had held Mr. Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant, it could have continued its questioning so long as it kept the answers out of any future trial. But trapped by an […]

John Yoo re-quoted in The New York Times, August 2, 2013 “Manning’s defenders will say that Manning only leaked information to the 21st-century equivalent of a newspaper, and that he could not have known that Al Qaeda would read it,” Professor Yoo wrote in National Review Online. “But WikiLeaks is not The New York Times […]

John Yoo writes for National Review Online, The Corner, July 30, 2013 The military judge has seriously erred in acquitting Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy, though his guilt on numerous, lesser charges should mean that he will spend the rest of his life in jail. Manning gave a treasure trove of classified intelligence to […]

John Yoo co-writes for The Wall Street Journal, From the City Journal, July 11, 2013 The media reaction to the Supreme Court’s two rulings on gay marriage last week focused largely on just one of them: the verdict striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Relatively little attention was paid to the other, a […]

John Yoo writes for USA Today, June 12, 2013 By combining telephone call records (but not the content of calls) and foreigners’ e-mails abroad — neither of which is protected by the Fourth Amendment — the NSA can at least create the data necessary to quickly identify and frustrate terrorist plans. Of course, the NSA […]

John Yoo quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 24, 2013 “Law enforcement alone means the nation lies vulnerable to attacks on soft targets and must expend enormous resources to catch the killers afterwards. A preemptive strategy based on intelligence and the use of force overseas seeks to prevent such attacks further from our shores.”

John Yoo writes for The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2013 (registration required) Moscow announced its travel ban in response to American sanctions on 18 Russian officials involved in the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer in Moscow…. By placing American officials and others on a sanctions list, Vladimir Putin is replaying the old […]

John Yoo and John Bolton write for The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2013 The attempt to advance gun control through the Arms Trade Treaty might surprise average Americans, but not liberals, who have been long frustrated by the Constitution’s limits on government. Gun-control statutes, like any others, have to survive both the House and […]

John Yoo interviewed on Wall Street Opinion Journal, March 25, 2013 “Some conservatives are afraid of the outcome and are hoping the Court might kick the case out. But the whole point of the initiative process is that … voters of California didn’t trust their elected officials to carry out their policies. So they used […]