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All power to the president.(The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 )(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Silverstein, Gordon
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THE POWERS OF WAR AND PEACE: THE CONSTITUTION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFTER 9/11 BY JOHN YOO University of Chicago Press, 378 pages, $29.00
GEORGE W. BUSH WAS CAUGHT flat-footed on the morning of September 11, 2001. Intent on exercising executive power without any interference from the courts or Congress, the White House turned to John Yoo--a young law professor on leave to serve as a mid-level official in the Justice Department--to provide the constitutional foundation for the war on terror.
Yoo cranked out a series of now-infamous memos on topics ranging from the use of ...
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