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Rendition Memo Drafted Days Before Prisoner Sent to Thailand and Tortured

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“I wish they weren't doing it, but I understand why they are,” Yoo told the OC Register in response to a question about Jarrett’s probe. “It is something one would expect. You have to make these kinds of decisions in an unprecedented kind of war with legal questions we've never had to think about before. We didn't seek out those questions. 9/11 kind of thrust them on us. No matter what you do, there's going to be a lot of people who are upset with your decision. If Bush had done nothing, there would be a lot of people upset with his decision, too. I understood that while we were doing it, there were going to be people who were critical. I can't go farther into it, because it's still going on right now. I'm not trying to escape responsibility for my decisions. I have to wait and see what they say.”

In terms of explaining what many legal scholars said was “sloppily reasoned” legal work, Yoo said he had “very little time to make very important decisions. You don't have the luxury to research every single thing and that's accelerated in war time.”

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