For that matter where do we get the "journalists" who do interviews?  

This interview is a joke.

this one response made the whole interview worthwhile:

but he would have "polished them differently." He adds, " I don't think I would have made the basic decisions differently."

from the horse's mouth. no hesitation, no remorse. he is now firmly estopped from claiming later that he was misinterpreted, that the memo's were merely unedited drafts, not meant as the final product.

he is, for all time, displayed as the freakish descendent of nazi germany's greatest legal theorists; the ones who legally justified the "final solution", and all the prior depradations of german law.

he is kin to the czar's counselors; lenin & stalin's advisors. nixon's rotting corpse is kicking itself, for not having this guy on his legal staff.

he is the ABA's worst nightmare; he provides substance for every bad lawyer joke since plato. shakespeare knew him, when he made the lawyer crack in Henry V.

in short, mr. yoo has nowhere to hide, no basis for libel or defamation suit, ever. with that, he also takes down the entire bush administration, laying bare bush's truest desire: to become the first american emperor.

John Yoo pauses to gather his thoughts before talking about the memos he wrote on behalf of the Justice Department.

Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest

And this:

"One thing I sometimes worry about is that lawyers in the future in the government are going to start worrying about, "What are people going to think of me?"