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FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, October 24, 2006  Professor
John Yoo (UC/Berkeley) has written the most important and
convincing book yet about the Bush Administration’s legal
response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and America’s
ensuing war against their al Qaeda perpetrators: War by Other
Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror.  Two factors
contributed to Yoo’s accomplishment.  First, his impeccable
professional credentials: summa cum laude, Harvard; law review,
Yale; law clerk, United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit (Judge Silberman); law clerk, Supreme Court
of the United States (Justice Thomas); general counsel, Senate
Judiciary Committee; professor of law, Berkeley.  Second,
serendipitously, Professor Yoo was in the eye of the hurricane
at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ’s
“lawyers’ lawyer”) on September 11, 2001.