And laugh about it
Interesting. He and Trump have both suggested that they might be hitting innocent fisherman but … oh well! Funny stuff.
But when you’ve lost John Yoo:
The Trump administration is facing growing calls from former government officials — including some in Republican administrations — to offer a legal justification for President Donald Trump’s two missile strikes this month on boats allegedly piloted by members of a Venezuelan drug cartel.
Those experts say the use of such force outside of war blurs the legal distinction between law enforcement and military actions and comes amid calls on Capitol Hill to curtail Trump’s military powers.
“There has to be a line between crime and war,” said John Yoo, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush. “We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.”
Yoo, now a professor at the University of California Berkeley, authored the Bush administration’s legal justification for enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected al Qaeda terrorists in the early years of Bush’s war on terror. While combating terrorism did shift following the terror attack on Sept. 11, 2001, from a law enforcement concern to a military endeavor, the White House has not asked Congress to declare war on the Tren de Aragua drug cartel nor Venezuela nor has the administration made a concerted attempt to convince the public that the threat it poses to the U.S. justifies such heavy, preemptive force.
“Traditionally, we’ve treated drug crimes as a criminal justice problem,” Yoo said. “And the administration needs to make a stronger case than it’s been making so far about why the law should consider cartels to be enemies of war.”
How about admitting publicly that you might be just blowing up fishermen for shits and giggles? Might that be a problem?
Oh well, who’s going to do anything about it? Certainly not the GOP Congress and I wouldn’t hold my breath for the Supreme Court to weigh in on the side of the law and the constitution. So let the games begin!