John Hawkins Interviews John Yoo

A couple of tortured Johns for you!

Earlier this week, I had a chance to interview John Yoo. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation.

All right, for the average person out there who doesn't have a law degree, explain why the Geneva Convention shouldn't apply to members of Al Qaeda we capture on foreign battlefields?

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[Jeff]

Actually the Convention does apply to those folks. It very clearly states what to do with illegal combatants and its not very PC.

[Jeff]

The Convention suggests treating them the same way the Farside Book of Equine Medicine does ... http://cdevers.posterous.com/far-side-equine-medicine