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...John C. Yoo ’89, an architect of the current Bush administration’s drive to increase executive power, began his career as a student of presidential authority during his years at the College...
Often identified as one of the most aggressive critics of international law, Yoo has come under fire in recent months for his support for broad presidential authority during wartime. After the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Yoo was one of the few members of the Justice Department who had a great deal of experience with war powers, according to The New York Times, and it was in his role as a deputy assistant attorney general in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel that he wrote a series of legal opinions arguing that the Bush administration could disregard...
...particular, Yoo explored the proposed creation of the Multilateral Force (MLF), a joint NATO force proposed in 1960 that would allow Western European nations to have a greater role in their defense while preventing them from developing their own nuclear arsenals...
...addition to relying on recently declassified archival materials obtained from the three presidential libraries, Yoo conducted personal interviews with several scholars who had previously served in government, including McGeorge Bundy, who had been a Harvard professor, and Richard Neustadt, the founder of the Kennedy School of Government...
Organizing his thesis chronologically, Yoo began with Eisenhower, who he said wanted to share nuclear technology with Europe in order to equalize the balance of power...