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"""Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, a secret memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's office concluded that President Bush had the power to deploy military force 'preemptively' against any terrorist groups or countries that supported them....The memo, written by Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, argues that there are effectively 'no limits' on the president's authority to wage war - a sweeping assertion of executive power that some constitutional scholars say goes considerably beyond any that had previously been articulated by the department."" - Michael Isikoff, Newsweek"""

Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, a secret memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's office concluded that President Bush had the power to deploy military force 'preemptively' against any terrorist groups or countries that supported them....The memo, written by Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, argues that there are effectively 'no limits' on the president's authority to wage war - a sweeping assertion of executive power that some constitutional scholars say goes considerably beyond any that had previously been articulated by the department. - Michael Isikoff, Newsweek

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John Yoo is professor of law at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He served as general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee; as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence H. Silberman; and, from 2001 to 2003, as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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