listening to the commonwealth club of canada radio program and are just a few seats or cory professor john yoo was discussing "taming globalization" and the issues related to globalization and the law within the united states constitution. there are a couple of relatively technical and i think very good questions, john, but i think are worth raising with you and there is one general political one but i think in fairness we should raise even though it isn't directly pertinent. let me do that too short technical ones for you to handle. one is the impact of the voluntary compliance, which seems to be quite common now where presidents simply avoid the political process by announcing that they are going to voluntarily comply with some international treaty or international agreement. any other race, are are you really serious about giving states this veto in the absence of federal legislation overriding them? don't you think they'll interfere with the effective implementation of perfectly democratically obtained rules? >> who's are both excellent questions. the first one about voluntary compliance i

please write down any questions you have for a professor john yoo. those, of course, will be collected during the program also want to remind you that teaming globalization is on sale, and he will be pleased to sign then immediately following the program. the commonwealth club is a nonpartisan organization, and we estimate our speakers be allowed to make their remarks without interruption. we encourage you to write and submit questions. and will now pause for one moment and then begin the program for our radio television and. stock fund good evening and look into tonight's meeting of the commonwealth club california. the place where you're in an el reedy confine this on the internet at commonwealth club of toward. i'm skipper roads, pastor of the commonwealth clubs board of directors and your chair for today's program. i am not pleased to introduce her today speaker. a law professor of the university of california at berkeley and co-author of the new book "taming globalization", the u.s. constitution, and the new world order. during the administratio

they investigated the legal boruc that went into the preparation of the torture memo prepared by john yoo and signed by his postulate bybee this document as briefly reference it's called pre laboratory operating instructions dated may seventh two thousand and two and you mention that there are ten techniques there's actually many many techniques in this document this is the document that we use that the united states uses to train service members in a in an area known as survival evasion resistance and escape c or how to avoid resistance to interrogation if captured by an enemy this is what we've heard many over the years in terms of reverse engineering in this document there are seven of the ten techniques that ended up in the torture memo come directly from the stockmen while. which is slamming a detaining against a rock there is cramped confinement tanian to a smallpox. facial slaps water water torture a whole wide range of documents excuse me of the techniques that they employ here and now do you think are these methods considered legal. well that's a very interesting question so you

used to be a great outspoken person on this he also by the way used to criticize his former student john yoo which is another curious interesting detail. unfortunately i guess you could say to say the least in that case but let's move on to a bay and the case of ana sherry to i know that they haven't said that they will let him testify yet on the stand but how big of a deal with this if they actually allowed him to testify if he was able to talk about you know his interrogation and the cia ad of the press was allowed to be there publicly here and reported on it. well it's not even i mean at issue is whether he's going to be able to testify publicly about why he doesn't want to be shackled when he meets with his lawyers so it's not like he's saying i want to be able to testify about the time one of your interrogators threaten me with a gun i want to be able to testify about. the two times you water boarded me what he wants to be able what his lawyers want to be able to testify about and what journalists want should be public is may well be a fairly circumscribed part of his treatment just tha

this man, who said things that are demonstratively untrue about george bush and dirk cheney and john yooe and said things that were slanderous to now advocate drone strikes -- i fully support the drone strikes. >> sean: so do i. >> they are important. but that means you don't get intelligence. there is no legal or moral distinction that you can draw between taking out a terrorist, the right thing to do and something far less injurious, waterboarding. it'd like to see him apologize frankly. i'd like to see him say look, i got it wrong. >> sean: the reason we're doing the vet, the president saying that, because i bet there are many people in this audience, which is well informed and many people around the country that have no idea there have been so many radical appointments. an avowed 9/11 truther, avowed communist. we are just beginning to touch the surface. there have been many of them. why do you think it's possible the radical appointments are made with so little scrutiny? >> you know the answer to that. this president has had the backing of most of the main stream media for most of h

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