(cross posted at OC Progressive.)
The Orange County Register's Eugene W. Fields interviews Torture Cheerleader John Yoo and asks all the tough questions, such as:
Q. Have you done anything interesting since moving to Southern California?
A. I'm getting in shape, which everyone here seems to be in. I went and joined this L.A. Sports Club down in Irvine, and Kobe Bryant works out there.
The question I wanted to ask was, "Are you afraid to travel outside of the United States, knowing you might be arrested as a war criminal?"
How can the Register interview such a person without doing a little homework and asking tough questions? Here is a guy who is credibly accused of war crimes and whose suitability as a constitutional law professor is in serious doubt.
Meanwhile, Jack Balkin, exposes the truth about Yoo's and Cheney's distortions of the Constitution, and attempt to create a Presidential dictatorship:
The President, because he is President, may do whatever he thinks is necessary, even in the domestic context, if he acts for military and national security reasons in his capacity as Commander in Chief. This theory of presidential power argues, in essence, that when the President acts in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, he may make his own rules and cannot be bound by Congressional laws to the contrary. This is a theory of presidential dictatorship.