Yoo was Bush's genie, according to Condi Rice. (Stay with me here folks, trust me, there's a parallel)

"When the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

This is positively absolutely definitely without a doubt the most amazing(ly disturbing) line of reasoning/ justification for torture I've heard yet. This one from Condi Rice, torture mama and messenger lady; she only 'delivered the memos to the CIA'.

Last Friday Condi cleared up the following for an inquisitive Stanford student: Waterboarding is legal BY DEFINITION BECAUSE IT WAS AUTHORIZED BY THE PRESIDENT. Ahhh, I see.
("The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations, under the Convention Against Torture," Rice said at Stanford, before adding: "And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.") Here is the article.

That is problematic ten ways to Tuesday.

Clearly, Condi thinks the Pres is above the law AND forgot about good old Montesquieu and his silly little check and balances. The president it seems, can actually write laws, then serve under them.

This reminds me of scenes from movies with genies - or just any movie that involves a wish coming true: Boy writes on piece of paper what he wants, wish comes true; John Yoo writes on paper US can torutre, US tortures.