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Convictions: Slate's blog on legal issues
Thursday, April 03, 2008 - Posts
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Doug, Jack G. was actually not between two academic appointments, but rather coming from the Defense Department. If he were capable of being brainwashed, then that ought to have done it. Read More...
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The first time I met John Yoo was in the E ring of the Pentagon in 2003 or so, near Don Rumsfeld's Office. He was carrying squash gear, as were his Pentagon pals, giving the E ring something of the atmosphere of a locker room. Yoo, a young man, was obsequiously Read More...
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In a modest attempt to allow equal time, I note that Esquire magazine has posted what it calls the first interview with John Yoo since this week's release of the latest memo. You can find it here . Not that the interview sheds much light, but my favorite Read More...
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John Yoo is a scholar of the first-rank. He confronted a legal and factual problem unlike any other public servant before him.
With hardly any law, and even less direct judicial precedent, he reached plausible, but not always, prudent conclusions. If we put aside the understandable suspicion of the overreaching of the president, can we objectively say what went wrong and, without perfect hindsight, what were the alternative legal -- as opposed to policy -- conclusions? Read More...
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Of all the passages in this latest memo worthy of dissection, I still can't get past the following: Because of the secret nature of al Qaeda's operations, obtaining advance information about the identity of al Qaeda operatives and their plans may prove Read More...
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Phillippe Sands reminds us that even if the Military Commissions Act of 2006 may have insulated American officials from domestic criminal liability under the War Crimes Act, they may someday face liability based on precedents created in part by American Read More...
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I want to briefly interrupt our torture memo coverage to laud Wal-Mart for finally coming to its senses in the matter of Deborah Shank . The case started back in 2000 when Ms. Shank, a Wal-Mart employee, was seriously injured in a minivan-vs.-18-wheeler Read More...
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I want to second Dahlia's frustration with those who don't see the newly released Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) torture memo as a big deal. Where is the outrage, the public outcry?! The shockingly flawed content of this memo, the deficient processes that Read More...
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A reader of the newly declassified "torture memo" finds herself tempted to live-blog it; that is, to offer online, real-time notes that otherwise would be scrawled in the margins replete with all manner of punctuation symbols (! and ? and, yes, @*?%!). Read More...
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