House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) didn't waste any time cutting to the chase in this morning's hearing featuring Vice Presidential Chief of Staff David Addington and former DOJ torture-memo attorney John Yoo.

Right out of the box Conyers asked Yoo, "Could the President order a suspect buried alive?"

Yoo hemmed and hawed on that one, and later in the hearing he refused to answer some questions on the basis of attorney-client privilege (he is the attorney, DOJ his former client).

Kate Klonick is covering the hearing at TPMmuckraker.