 For reasons which Haynes never disclosed, this opinion was adopted as official policy in spite of Mora's objections.Underlining his rebuke, Haynes never informed Mora that the policy adopted by the DoD took no account of Mora's objections.Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, who briefly worked at the Pentagon as Special Counsel under Haynes before becoming head of the Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice (2003-2004), notes in his book, "The Terror Presidency" (2007), that at the time Haynes did urge the powers that be in the Bush administration to seek and obtain Congressional authorization for the policy and military commissions, but that others in the administration felt doing so was unnecessary.