By John Yoo
"In this contentious study, Berkeley law prof and former Justice Department official Yoo reprises the brief for expansive presidential power that made him one of the Bush administration's most controversial aides. He focuses on a handful of presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR who, he argues, extended executive authority in novel ways to surmount crises without letting an inherently slow, disorganized, corrupt, and pusillanimous Congress get in the way......His analysis culminates in a defense of Bush administration policies on warrantless wiretapping, "coercive interrogation," enemy combatants, and Iraq, and a denunciation of Obama's deviations from them. Yoo's chronicle cogently fits in Bush's initiatives with previous presidential arrogations of power. But his tacit premise that the open-ended, ill-defined "war on terror" compares to previous crises like the Civil War and requires similarly drastic responses will be strongly disputed by civil libertarians." (PW Reviews)
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"In this contentious study, Berkeley law prof and former Justice Department official Yoo reprises the brief for expansive presidential power that made him one of the Bush administration's most controversial aides. He focuses on a handful of presidents, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and FDR who, he argues, extended executive authority in novel ways to surmount crises without letting an inherently slow, disorganized, corrupt, and pusillanimous Congress get in the way......His analysis culminates in a defense of Bush administration policies on warrantless wiretapping, "coercive interrogation," enemy combatants, and Iraq, and a denunciation of Obama's deviations from them. Yoo's chronicle cogently fits in Bush's initiatives with previous presidential arrogations of power. But his tacit premise that the open-ended, ill-defined "war on terror" compares to previous crises like the Civil War and requires similarly drastic responses will be strongly disputed by civil libertarians." (PW Reviews)
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