Thursday, June 23, 2011

And he is the man who would know

John "North Korean Sleeper Agent" Yoo has spoken out about President Obama's decision to ignore Congress on the matter of making war on Libya without permission. Yoo says Obama did it the wrong way.
John Yoo, the former Bush administration official whose view of executive power holds that the president has the power to order a child's testicles to be crushed and an entire village slaughtered, thinks President Obama is breaking with tradition by overruling his advisers at the Justice and Defense Department and deciding he didn't need permission from Congress to continue the military's involvement in Libya.

Yoo's argument is that Obama is constitutionally allowed to reach his own interpretations of federal law, but wrote that it was "unprecedented" for a president to disregard the views of senior Justice and Defense Department officials.

In short, Yoo is arguing that Obama would have been fine if he had just put someone in the Office of Legal Council post who would have given him the go-ahead -- perhaps someone with wider views of executive power, like Yoo.
You see, you have to go through an appropriately placed stooge to make it look legal when you pervert the Constitution.

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