“Look, If You Can’t Torture People, You Have to be Able to do Something.”

Shorter John Yoo: No, I still can’t till any difference between wiretapping in defiance of a statute and wiretapping with the authorization of a statute, because the Constitution clearly states that laws apply only at the pleasure of the president. Somewhere in the back.

I note as well that Yoo resorts to one of the first refuges of the hack, the preemptive tu quoque, which is a pretty irritating move even when the actions being compared are the same.