Reply #24: ***Another full thread on JOHN YOO & HIS MEMOS: ***

[Nothing Without Hope]

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Thread title (12/20 GD): New LAT op/ed from JOHN YOO, the legal enabler of the IMPERIAL BUSH

Be sure to look at the links below the excerpt, which is from a self-serving op/ed Yoo wrote in the LA Times. The links are to other imortant Yoo information. There is additional material, especially from the New Yorker, in the replies to thread.

Yoo's memos assured Bush that he could legally ignore the Geneva Conventions and that the President has the ONLY power to declare war. The War Powers controversy now up at DU over Daschle's statements about what happened in 2001 has to have the Yoo connection added to it. Daschle says Congress expressly forbade Bush War Powers in the US. But Yoo told Bush that Congress would have no such power to deny him.

K & R