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Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony

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  • Tuesday, May 15, 2007 04:41 PM

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    John Yoo has been appointed Attorney General.

    John Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?

    Yoo: No treaty.

    Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.

    Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

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