An Interview With “Torture Memo” Author, John Yoo

by John Hawkins

John Yoo has been in the news a lot lately, not just because of his new book, Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush, but because he’s one of the authors of the Bush Administration “torture memos” that were the legal basis for the enhanced interrogation techniques the Bush Administration used against Al-Qaeda. Late last week, much to the dismay of many liberals who desperately want a Bush Administration scalp, the DOJ essentially cleared Yoo of professional-misconduct allegations for his authorship of the memos.

Earlier this week, I had a chance to interview John Yoo. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.

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