Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

John Yoo, who is not only still allowed to practice law but also teaches it at a school, took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to explain just why he had to advise the President to break all those laws, torture all those people, and illegally spy on all those people. You see he just loves the law and this country so much he had to destroy them, and if you spend any time thinking about how that doesn't make sense you want us to be attacked by terrorists. Mostly what he does is lie about what FISA allowed you to do, impugns the motives of five inspectors general who looked at what they were trying to do and told them to get fucked, talking about how hard it is to follow the law, and incredulously acting like he can't understand why you think laws apply in wartime.

It is absurd to think that a law like FISA should restrict live military operations against potential attacks on the United States.
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Under FISA, to obtain a judicial wiretapping warrant the government is supposed to show probable cause that a specified target is a foreign agent. Unlike, say, Soviet spies working under diplomatic cover, terrorists are hard to identify.
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In FISA, President Bush and his advisers faced an obsolete law not written with live war with an international terrorist organization in mind.
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Now, according to the inspectors general, those of us in government following the 9/11 terrorist attacks should have assumed that the usual peacetime rules for domestic wiretaps applied and interpreted FISA in a most curious way -- to delete the president's traditional authority as commander in chief to collect signals intelligence in wartime.
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As we confront terrorists who remain intent on attacking the U.S., using weapons we cannot anticipate, we should be skeptical of those who insist that we radically change the way this country has always made war.

That's right, FISA, the law that allowed you to start spying immediately without a warrant as long as you happened to fill in the paperwork after a couple of weeks, couldn't handle the quick pace of terrorism. FISA, while apparently legal during peacetime, immediately becomes a law that starts knocking jewels off of the scepter of our elected God-King the second they say we're at war, so it must be ignored. Furthermore, even the basic concept of following laws during wartime is thrown into question. Not breaking laws and not spying on the populace during wartime is even deemed un-American and a fundamental change from the way we go to war.

I'm at a total loss here. He even goes and takes quotes from founding fathers and attempts to twist them into a complete endorsement of an Emperor President. Hell, he uses phrases like "possibly", "maybe", "suppose", and "what if" so many times you start to wonder if he even believes what he's arguing, or, if he's constructed such an elaborate fantasy world that he believes he's living in it. He's just really pissed that all these jokers who think laws were broken and the Constitution was violated don't understand the basic fundamental tenet of American law that only smart people like John Yoo understand: when the President rings the war bell, he can skullfuck your mother to death as long as he claims it benefited the defense of this nation. Please Mr. Holder, prosecute this asshole.