“What about ordering a village of resistants to be massacred? … Is that a power that the president could legally—”
“Yeah,” Yoo replied, according to a partial transcript included in the report. “Although, let me say this: So, certainly, that would fall within the commander-in-chief’s power over tactical decisions.”
“To order a village of civilians to be [exterminated]?” the OPR investigator asked again.
“Sure,” said Yoo.
“I have always been on the record, in fact since 2003, with the concept of living our values, and I think that whenever we have perhaps taken expedient measures they have turned around and bitten us in the backside.”
And there you have it.
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