hold all who have been responsible for torture in the name of the American people to be in violation of US law.

"If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, here is no law that can stop him?", to which Yoo replied "No treaty." Cassel followed up with "Also no law by Congress; that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo", to which Yoo replied "I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that."