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Yoo: His Half-Baked Work is Also Dishonest Crap

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To spare you valuable time that might be more usefully devoted to, say, the selfless nurturance of human progress, Louis Fisher reads John Yoo’s unpublished thoughts on Thomas Jefferson and executive power. Given the enthusiasm that Bush’s defenders have shown in comparing their hero to Harry Truman, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Mozart and all the rest, it’s not surprising that Jefferson has been deliberately modified to suit Yoo’s purposes. One interesting detail that Fisher discovers: Yoo writes extensively about the trial of Aaron Burr without quoting or citing or even mentioning the trial transcripts — transcripts he’d used extensively in an article he published a decade ago. Not surprisingly, it seems the trial transcripts would have undermined Yoo’s argument (which I believe he’s made elsewhere) that Jefferson’s actions in the trial amount to a clear precedent for claims of executive privilege.

(Via Ralph Luker)

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