Yoo: "Without secrecy, the government can't function"

Without secrecy, the government can't function. No one thinks conversations between federal judges and their clerks, or members of Congress and their staff, ought to be aired publicly without good reason. The same goes for presidents--even if their poll ratings are low.

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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010371

Well, since it's Yoo, he must have a very expansive idea of what constitutes the proper functioning of government. If that includes lawbreaking, well, it's the law's fault for being in the President's way, isn't it?

Edit: There's a big problem with Yoo's otherwise sensible sounding points about nothing being done in the US Attorney scandal etc. having been conclusively proven to be a crime. Namely, the DoJ, the US Attorneys, etc, only exist because of acts of Congress, and that is what gives Congress oversight of them. They are public institutions. Because the President did not create them, it's reckless disregard of separation of powers on Congress' side to arbitrarily declare that they owe Congress nothing and need not cooperate whatsoever with Congress for any reason beyond, "the President said so". They work for the People; they are not the President's personal servants. At least, that's not how Congress made them, but that's how Yoo wants to rhetorically remake them.

That's just wrong and mistaken.

What's it like to know that your allegiance to secrecy cost your father-in-law his job and his reputation?

Criminal activity can't function.

John Yoo would occupy that position.

Cheney?

he is an ass clown...

Only the content of his views, content which sucks.

Hey, Yoo! Read the Constitution. This is a DEMOCRACY.

You might be interested in this recently WJ had on a shill who has written a book premised on the idea that Democrats infiltrated the CIA to smear BushCo.

lol



Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security-from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads-bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage.


And this is his previous offering:



The man in the cockpit fighting the war on terror. When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is Donald Rumsfeld. His great fear was a second Pearl Harbor. When it happened on September 11, 2001, he led the charge to make sure it never happens again. This book takes you inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon, detailing the far-sighted, courageous decisions he has made to enable our military to fight this most unconventional of wars. Rowan Scarborough, veteran national security reporter for the Washington Times, has had access to Rumsfeld himself as well as to numerous never-before-released documents that show not only how Rumsfeld is fighting the war, but how he is fighting the bureaucracy and remaking the American military, shifting the focus from the ingrained "can't-do" bureaucracy to the special operations Green Berets, SEALs, and others who live by "can-do."

Well, i think that EVERYTHING in gov't should be an open book. So, there's at least one somebody who thinks that judges and clerks, congresscritters and staff conversations (etc.) should be aired publicly.

That makes Yoo's entire point invalid. Only someone stupid would make a statement so broad and so easy to deconstruct.
The Professor

No hiding your actions if you want to call it a democracy.

it shouldn't be there at all, for it's not a democratic government it's a criminal conspiracy. Yoo needs to be arrested for sedition and as there is no habeas corpus to protect him, we needn't bother with a trial, or a lawyer, or any of the niceties of a democracy.

Secrecy is the first requirement, and first object, of legitimate government!
I think it was Jefferson who came up with that slogan.

Fool me twice, shame on Yoo!

He doesn't fool 75% of the country. They found a winner with him - will go to any length for PNAC and the barons.

WILL FOO BE MADE AG if Gonzalez is removed?

and pleasuring himself to pictures of the 1980 Gwangju Massacre

as long as he understands why the President needs to crush said testicles...

While you may think that it's more important that the "trains run on time," the People under whose authority the government even exists have higher priorities and superior values!

It's about time you and your cronies began to comprehend the meaning of 'service' as used in "public service"!!

Yoo asshole! :grr: