by John Yoo
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John Yoo, the key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11, delivers a fascinating insider account of the War on Terror. While America reeled from the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Yoo and a skeletal staff of the Office of Legal Counsel found themselves on the phone with the White House. In a series of memos, Yoo offered his legal opinions on the president’s authority to respond, and in the process had an almost unmatched impact on America's fight against terrorism. His analysis led to many of the Bush administration’s most controversial policies, including detention at Guantanamo Bay, coercive interrogation, military trials for terrorists, preemptive attacks, and the National Security Agency’s wiretapping program. In fascinating detail, Yoo takes us inside the corridors of power and examines specific cases, from John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla to an American al-Qaeda leader assassinated by a CIA pilotless drone in the deserts of Yemen. In a midterm election year, when the controversies over the president’s handling of the War on Terror are sure to wage more forcefully than ever before, John Yoo’s War by Other Means is set to become one of the fall’s most talked about books.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 War Criminals Shouldn't Profit from Book Writing, 2008-10-18
--from Wikipedia--
Retired Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, General Colin Powell's former chief of staff, has stated the following regarding Mr. Yoo: "Haynes, Feith, Yoo, Bybee, Gonzalez and - at the apex - Addington, should never travel outside the US, except perhaps to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They broke the law; they violated their professional ethical code. In the future, some government may build the case necessary to prosecute them in a foreign court, or in an international court." Retired Major General Antonio Taguba writes: "There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes; the only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
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I don't need to read this book to know it is unworthy xenophobic un-American immoral smut.
11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
This is a disturbing book, 2007-05-27
John Yoo is a short-sighted and dangerous man, and is quite possibly a war criminal. It seems ironically obvious that if you want to claim the moral high ground, you better HAVE the moral high ground; this book attempts to argue, in eight painfully dry chapters, why torturing goat farmers and bugging your own people is, somehow, that high ground.
Insane.
Certainly, it sheds light into how someone claiming to be a "compassionate conservative" and "loving guy," as George W. Bush has, would likewise attempt to claim that waterboarding someone who may or may not be guilty of a crime is a good thing. Like any drug addict (and Bush, as a dry-drunk, is most certainly that), our President has found a new fix: power. And John Yoo is an all too eager enabler.
Reading this book was like watching a car crash is slow motion...from inside the car. I had to take a shower three times to wash the stink off...
6 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
 Read if you want to understand, 2007-01-31
Anyone who really wants to understand how the legal decisions in the War on Terror were made, rather than depend on the red state-blue state polemical attacks, should read John Yoo's book. That he perceived his first duty to be to protect the nation and to protect those in our military and intelligence services, who are on the front lines, rather than to protect political correctness or the Bush administration, is to his credit. He, too, is a soldier defending us, but in his case, moral rather than physical courage was called for. This Marine veteran says thank you to him.
Robert A. Hall
Author of "The Good Bits."
15 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
Make-believe Machievelli..., 2006-12-18
John Yoo saw himself as a king-maker. The only trouble was that he chose as his "king" a deeply flawed man. Now, he is into C.Y.A.
Maybe if Yoo had experienced torture himself, he would bring real understanding to the subject.
My only question is: why is he still on the faculty of a prestigious university?
6 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
WAR BY OTHER MEANS surveys not only events and personalities, but the even more important legal foundations of these decisions,, 2006-12-14
WAR BY OTHER MEANS: AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF THE WAR ON TERROR is not your ordinary survey of 9/11: comes from one of the members of a skeletal staff at the Office of Legal Council who stayed behind while Washington, D.C. evacuated in the aftermath of events, and thus offers the observations of one who had a ringside seat to the politics behind the response to al Qaeda. It was John Yoo's analysis which led to some of Bush's most controversial approaches and politics, from Guantanamo Bay to military trials and the Patriot Act: WAR BY OTHER MEANS surveys not only events and personalities, but the even more important legal foundations of these decisions, offering an unprecedented view of events key to any thorough understanding.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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