A Curious Man

I will never understand John Yoo. Case in point, this article. Here, Yoo says many curious things, such as: It’s “good for the president to nominate someone with his views [as attorney general]. Every subordinate should agree with his views so there is a unified approach to the law,” Ahhh, UET anyone? Bush’s abrogations of power from the other branches are for the defense of the U.S. and, thus, good, said Yoo. As an example, he said, the National Security Agency’s warrantless electronic surveillance of thousands of Americans is justifiable because the purpose is to catch terrorists, while Nixon’s secret wiretapping of those he considered political enemies was “to save his own hide.” See, it's good to break the law if you think you have a good reason... He said the courts waited until after World War II to decide that the internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent was wrong, but “now, in the age of judicial supremacy, the courts intervene before the war is over,” referring to federal courts’ decisions to hear cases brought by foreign nationals imprisoned on suspicion of being terrorists at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So, you understand, it was a GOOD thing that we left all the poor Japanese-Americans imprisoned in Manzanar throughout WWII, even though it was wrong. Confused yet?