Another "torture memo"

In 2003, John Yoo, then of the Office of Legal Counsel, sent a memo to the Pentagon in which he asserted that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming, and other crimes do not apply to military interrogators given the President's commander-in-chief authority.  The memo was finally released yesterday.  (HT: Lederman)  Yoo told the Washington Post that his successors at the OLC have "ignored the Department's long tradition in defending President's authority in wartime," and that legal advice set forth in the memoranda that have subsequently been withdrawn was "near boilerplate." 

I have not yet read the memo released yesterday, but I've written elsewhere about Yoo's previously released 2002 "torture memo," and it's quite a bit of a stretch, to say the least, to call it "boilerplate."