John Yoo wouldn't answer yesterday. But his answer has to be yes, right? Here he is in another venue:
"Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty
Cassel: Also no law by Congress -- that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo...
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that..."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/06/could-the-president-legally-bury-someone-alive/214772/
