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I guess some of those dubious when the reference was made yesterday had some reason to be.
The baseline legitimacy that might be given to Yoo reminds me about a debate over at Balkinization when Marty Lederman (who joined the Obama OLC) basically argued that official OLC policy should generally be deemed law when deciding if an official should be liable for punishment. He felt there was horrible policy, policy based on patently unreasonable application of the law, but was hard pressed to admit there should be liability if the officials were not "rogue."
The participants of that blog also circled the wagons regarding even having Yoo's university support an investigation of his actions. This "mainstream" sentiment underlines what we are up against.
[btw who knew Yoo was married to Peter Arnett's daughter! apparently, she is against his politics/policy
http://www.lawschool.com/yoo.htm]
