now let me introduce john yoo. john has been teaching law at the university of california-berkeley law school for 20 years, more than 20 years and has been a colleague at aei for the past decade former deputy assistant attorney general locker -- law clerk to justice thomas and the author of five major volumes and scholarly articles on presidential power at the laws of war and international law. his most recent book the one we are talking about today yoo -- "point of attack" is like his other books and that john is not shy or retiring his nor do john's books for courage. who else could be a visiting scholar at aei and to write the search in iraq whose idea on the spaces might not have been as important as we carried aei claimed and who else would dare to argue that the lower shame is problematic precisely because it discourages the use of force rather than encourages it. i can see john being offered to record contract with the idea of making john lennon is give peace a chance and give war a chance. like all of john's

you remember that name john yoo the notorious attorney who sought to justify the bush regime's torture program they tried to put him at the helm of the national archives now there was a fuss over this and cooler heads prevailed but the interesting thing is that that christopher simpson's piece about this which is submitted to the national archives for publication in their report was itself since they left it left it out of the report so it's now part of the new introduction to christopher simpson's blowback which is the first and i think by far the best history of the u.s. recruitment of nazis and fascists after world war two for help in the cold war certainly tells a different story than what we've been told about world war two and if you have hans the germany you know i have to say in the introduction to this series you write an excellent introduction to that through the five books on the books that once these books are gone out of print are gone forever is that really true though because i was able to find these books in full on amazon i mean what's the big deal with not having a ha