-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, […]

The New York Times, February 13, 2010 by Daniel Weintraub http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14sfpolitics.html?scp=1&sq=Berkeley&st=cse Mr. Yoo attributes the demand to the unusual nature of the course, which allows students to exercise their legal creativity. “There is no right answer,” he said.

-Real Clear Politics, February 7, 2010 Host Fareed Zakaria http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/07/interview_with_john_yoo_on_the_treatment_of_detainees_100213.html I think, actually, a lot of the confusion in the foreign policy community, in the United States and other countries, is that for the first time we’ve confronted this kind of enemy, and we’re actually trying to develop a regime of legal rules that actually […]

-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 […]

-The Washington Post, January 10, 2010 by Jack Rakove http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010801498.html The great lesson of this past decade of misrule has been that our system works best when all three institutions are fully engaged. However much we celebrate the heroic presidents, Americans, as a people, have a stake in seeing the whole government achieve its potential. […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 10, 2010 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/81082822.html Has the Obama administration retarded the integration of information by our intelligence agencies out of a touchiness for civil liberties? Some of the administration’s political appointees had attacked the Bush administration’s terrorist policies on exactly such grounds.

The New York Times, December 29, 2009 by Deborah Solomon http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03fob-q4-t.html?scp=9&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt “The idea is that the president’s power grows and changes based on circumstances, and that’s what the framers of the Constitution wanted. They wanted it to exist so the president could react to crises immediately.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20, 2009 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/79743207.html When Obama decided to boost troop levels in Afghanistan, he did not go to Congress on bended knee…. If Obama succeeds in bringing the nation through Iraq and Afghanistan, and destroys al-Qaeda, he will have drawn on the same wellsprings of presidential power that sustained […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2009 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20091122_Closing_Arguments__No_clear_benefit_to_holding_9_11_trial_in_New_York.html It certainly doesn’t help those who are already protected by the Bill of Rights and can be tried in civilian courts. If anything, their rights are at risk, not just by a failure to convict terrorists who killed almost 3,000 people, but by the inevitable […]