the University of California at Berkeley and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the
Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. In the first role, he is a leading scholarly
proponent of a broad reading of the President's constitutional foreign affairs powers. In the
second, he advised the Bush Administration on the extent of presi-dential power in the post-
September 11 war on terrorism, most notably in the now-infamous" torture memos" of 2001 …