The biggest question of all is "Why did the Bush Administration come out swinging immediately after 9/11 with so many secret memos and programs?" They came out fighting at a time when they could’ve done almost anything they wanted to do. The F.I.S.A. judges saw the Twin Trade Towers come down too. They would have […]
There are some lawyer heros in this John Yoo/Torture Memo story. Well, maybe not exactly heros. More like people who refused to be anti-heros, whose integrity over-rode their ideology or political persuasions. One was James Comey [hospital stand-off with Alberto Gonzales] who stood up to the Administration on the unwarranted domestic spying issue, who appointed […]
The Continuation of Politics By Other Means: The Original Understanding of War Powers John C. Yoo 1996 In recent years, legal commentators have sharply criticized executive initiative in the war-making process. This Article examines the historical and legal background of the war powers in the Anglo-American world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author […]