Yoo on Hamdan

John Yoo, the principal author of the legal justification for the unitary executive in wartime, finally weighs in on the Hamdan decision.

"What the court is doing is attempting to suppress creative thinking," said Professor Yoo.....

The court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Professor Yoo said, may signal the collapse of the entire enterprise. "It could affect detention conditions, interrogation methods, the use of force," he said. "It could affect every aspect of the war on terror.".....

But the effect of the decision, constitutional lawyers across the political spectrum agreed, could devastate the administration's main legal justifications for its campaign against the terrorist threat.