Just a reminder

... of precisely what sort of people are closely advising our current leadership:

Doug Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

John Yoo: No treaty.

Doug Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo [while Yoo was a Justice Department attorney].

John Yoo: I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that. [Emphasis added]

-- From a 12/1/2005 debate between Doug Cassel, director of Notre Dame Law School's Center for Civil and Human Rights, and John Yoo, former member of the Justice Department, author of the infamous 'Yoo memorandum' (some analysis here, complete text here) and advocate of the unitary executive theory of supreme Executive Branch power.