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"If it's not a war against Venezuela, then we're using armed force against civilians who are just committing crimes," said John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor who helped craft the President George W. Bush administration's legal arguments and justification for aggressive interrogation after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "Then this question, this worry, becomes really pronounced. You know, you're shooting civilians. There's no military purpose for it."
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"If the administration wants to succeed, it needs to bring the adults into the room," said John Yoo, a former Justice Department attorney and now a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
