Writing in the Wall Street Murdoch, Yoo keeps on digging a deeper hole for himself. Just a few snips to get you started:
Okay. Now the evidence that contradicts this propaganda that our intel agencies knew little, did little, simply had no idea about anything - which is why the Bush administration needed to spy, spy, spy on Americans:
Yoo is full of it. Onwards to the next snip from the Yoo-lie-a-thon:
Does Yoo mean the 2 al Qaeda terrorists - later to be involved in the attacks on 9/11 - that our own FBI was tracking? Apparently the "near impossible task" was entirely possible.
Read Jawbreaker by former spook Gary Bernsten and see just close we were to getting OBL and how we also let him go at Tora Bora.
Of course the NSA failing to translate something as important as "Tomorrow is zero hour," said during a conversation by two Arab speakers on September 10, 2001, required more domestic spying on Americans, right? Here you go:
Here is what I wrote in 2006 regarding the above revelations:
"Was any employee of the NSA, up the chain of command and including Hayden, in any way reprimanded for failing to do their job? How was this massive failure - HUMAN FAILURE - addressed by this administration?
Hayden and the NSA were given more power, more technology, and more access to more private information to fix in a post-911 world the very things that worked correctly in the pre-911 world. The people failing to do their jobs, however - that is, the things that did not work correctly - were allowed to operate outside of the law and with almost no oversight.
This one HUMAN failure is but a single example of a collective incompetence so negligent that 19 men with box-cutters managed to bypass the most advanced technology and surveillance, the strongest military, and the most superior intelligence capabilities of the most powerful country in the world. Yet not one of these failures, not one of these people was in any way held accountable. Instead, we the citizens were punished with less freedom."
And what I wrote still applies.
It would take me hours to compile the extensive amount of evidence - available in the public sphere - that directly contradicts everything John Yoo asserts in his op-ed. I suggest you do your own research.
On a side note, Yoo is clearly insane to think that he can write such blatant misrepresentations without anyone noticing. I noticed. I guarantee others will notice too.