Reply #5: John Yoo - Liar

[pmorlan1]

I hope everyone posts a comment at the WSJ site. I usually never see my comments to the WSJ posted so I'm going to re-post it here (I also made a minor correction to it).

"Congress must have understood that its words included stopping domestic attacks, since the hijacked airliners of 9/11 took off and crashed on American soil." - John Yoo

As John Yoo knows, Congress specifically rejected the administration's request to amend the resolution to include the words - "in the United States" and after "appropriate force" so how can he possibly say that Congress must have understood? He knows darn well that Congress specifically rejected this idea and only voted for limited war powers. But Yoo and the rest of the unitary executive fetishists grabbed that power for the president because they believed that Congress had no business telling the president anything about how to protect the nation.

John Yoo and his delusional idea about presidential power have done great damage to our country. And until this country officially shines the light of day on this anti-democratic theory and banishes it forever we are still at risk as a nation.