Wall Street Journal Publishes Professor Yoo’s Op-Ed
January 29, 2009
Visiting Professor John Yoo authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Obama Made a Rash Decision on GTMO: The president will soon realize that governing involves hard choices.” Professor Yoo writes that while the closure of Guantanamo Bay will please his base President Obama’s actions, ” . . . will also seriously handicap our intelligence agencies from preventing future terrorist attacks. In issuing these executive orders, Mr. Obama is returning America to the failed law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism that prevailed before Sept. 11, 2001.” Read article …