The Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2009 by John Yoo http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704431804574537370665832850.html#printMode Prosecutors will be forced to reveal U.S. intelligence on KSM, the methods and sources for acquiring its information, and his relationships to fellow al Qaeda operatives. The information will enable al Qaeda to drop plans and personnel whose cover is blown. It will enable […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2009 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/59146512.html What has gone less well understood is what the investigation will do to the CIA as an institution at a time when it serves as the nation’s eyes and ears and, sometimes, the sword and shield, during war against a shadowy, covert enemy…. All intelligence […]

The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2009 by John Yoo http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124770304290648701.html#printMode Unlike, say, Soviet spies working under diplomatic cover, terrorists are hard to identify. Yet they are vastly more dangerous. Monitoring their likely communications channels is the best way to track and stop them. Building evidence to prove past crimes, as in the civilian criminal […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 7, 2009 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/20090705_Closing_Arguments__No_more_quotas_The_Supreme_Court_in__quot_Ricci_v__DeStefano_quot__dealt_a_final_blow_to_racially_motivated_hiring__This_is_the_dawning_of_post-racial_America_.html Candidate Obama said it was time to move beyond identity politics…. That requires us to discard extreme measures such as racial hiring and admission quotas or limits on state elections. While they might have been justified in the 1960s, to eliminate segregation root and branch, […]

The New York Times, June 13, 2009 by John Schwartz http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/us/politics/14yoo.html?_r=2&scp=7&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt Mr. Yoo, now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment, but in a column he wrote about the suit last year in The Wall Street Journal, he said, “The legal system should not […]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 10, 2009 by John Yoo http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/20090510_Obama_needs_a_neutral_justice.html Obama could make a pick based solely on race or sex—though it’s not clear why the most empathetic judges are minorities or women—to please parts of his coalition. But if the president wants to secure the success of his economic, political, and national-security objectives, he […]

Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2009 by Carol J. Williams http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bybee22-2009apr22,0,2274085.story “Three thousand of our fellow citizens had been killed in a deliberate attack by a foreign enemyֽ” Yooֽ unruffled by shouts that he is a war criminal and should be in jailֽ told a packed auditorium on the Orange County campus. “That forced us […]

-The Orange County Register, March 3, 2009 by Eugene W. Fields http://www.ocregister.com/articles/government-think-legal-2323245-people-decisions “These memos I wrote were not for public consumption. They lack a certain polish, I think—would have been better to explain government policy rather than try to give unvarnished, straight-talk legal advice. I certainly would have done that differently, but I don’t think […]

Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2009 by Susannah Rosenblatt http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/11/local/me-yoo11 “I certainly don’t get upset about being criticized,” said Yoo, sitting in his fourth-floor campus office. “I would feel I wasn’t doing my job as an academic if I wasn’t writing or saying things that other people disagreed with.”

The Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2009 by John Yoo http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123318955345726797.html# While these actions will certainly please his base—gone are the cries of an “imperial presidency”—they will also seriously handicap our intelligence agencies from preventing future terrorist attacks. In issuing these executive orders, Mr. Obama is returning America to the failed law enforcement approach to […]