The torture tutor: John Yoo didn't invent excuses for abuse of power. He learned them.(EXECUTIVE POWER)

AS THE AUTHOR OF OFFICIAL memoranda seeking to justify torture, warrant-flee wiretapping, detention without trial, and other expressions of lawless power, John Yoo appears to be enjoying his 15 minutes of infamy.

Profiled in the mainstream press, lionized and vilified in the opinion media, Yoo is experiencing a burst of publicity that can only enhance his career--and help promote a new book in which he justifies the supposedly "inherent" constitutional authority of the president to ignore statutes passed by irritating congressional majorities and decisions delivered ...

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