John Yoo, the architect of untrammeled executive authority.

The hits keep coming from John Yoo's twisted mind. The Berkeley law professor perverted the definition of torture and advocated for sweeping powers for the president, and it gets better. Thanks to the opening of secret Bush administration memos, we're learning more about the nature of the intellectual machinations to impose martial law and limiting the Constitution should the president deem it necessary to protect the country. Most of them were never implemented, but stayed on the books. Here's an example from one of the most galling of them:

"In perhaps the most surprising assertion, the Oct. 23, 2001, memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror. 'First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully,' Yoo wrote in the memo entitled 'Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activity Within the United States.'"

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