No Yoo didn’t
No Yoo didn’t
Part of the territory of being an attorney is being unpopular, but John Yoo might possibly be the most well known, unpopular attorney of our generation. The former Bush justice official who was behind the infamous Bybee “torture” memo, turning P.O.W’s into “Enemy Combatants,” and giving the legal backing to unconstitutional wiretapping, to name just a few, has released the book “Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush.” Yoo traces the development of Presidential power through history, showing how each President shaped his powers to meet specific, extraordinary challenges that no constitutional founder could have imagined, demonstrating that, sometimes, the toughest decision to make might not be the most popular one.
Guests:
John Yoo, Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and author of, “Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush”; former attorney in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush Administration
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Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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