EXCERPT:
YOO: "Laura, I worked on very difficult, I think, 9/11 issues when we‘re facing a terrorist organization. There are a lot of difficult questions to answer when you‘re involved with the laws of war. But this is not one of them. If you look at the U.S. law of war manual, which is the definitive interpretation of the way we fight, the laws of armed conflict for the United States, it says clearly that you are not allowed to give orders that say no survivors. Commanders are not allowed to give orders, say, 'No quarter.' And so Hegseth can‘t give that command legally. Also, again, there are gray areas, but one gray area, that one area that‘s not gray, that‘s clear, is you can‘t fire on the wounded. You can‘t kill survivors who can no longer fight. So, the admiral should not have obeyed the order that Secretary Hegseth gave. And even the soldiers who carried out the admiral‘s orders should not have obeyed.