Something Yoo don't know?

Tip of the hat to Andrew Sullivan for raising the prospect that this Administration's leading sophists will answer for their justifications of standard operating procedure at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. On the latest Chris Matthews show, in the segment in which each panelist mentions something we ought to know but don't, Sullivan said:

... latest revelations on the torture front show—the memo from John Yoo—as well as revelations from Phillippe Sands’ book, mean that Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be at some point indicted for war crimes. They deserve to be.

The infamous 81-page Justice Department memo in which Yoo argues that presidential power can trump the Constitution when national security is at stake can be read in two parts, here and here.

Perhaps the real question is whether any of the likely next presidents has the stomach for the fight that would follow any serious attempt to prosecute Rumsfeld et al. McCain and Clinton almost certainly don't; Obama (and a restored Samantha Power?) might just . . .