Friday, April 04, 2008 - Posts
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Thanks very much, Eric, for the clarification . Perhaps I misread your tone and, if so, I, too, am sorry for the disconnect. I had understood you to be suggesting that Philippe Sands and others of us were generally motivated by our alleged "pleasure" Read More...
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Marty , you sure read a lot into my post , which was meant as a critique of Sands' view that American lawyers should be prosecuted in foreign courts if they give legal advice that results in international law violations, not as a defense of the torture Read More...
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Seems to me that about the most useless thing any of us can do with the Yoo memo is form character judgments. Whether his work at OLC was animated by bad motives or a well-intentioned desire to avert a terror attack is beyond the scope of a legal blog. Read More...
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Via Scott Horton comes the news that the U.S. Marine Corps has charged an Iraqi-Canadian civilian contractor in Iraq with brandishing a knife and stabbing another contractor. The charges follow an important change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice Read More...
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Eric, With all respect, I think that post really is beyond the pale. The allegation that we critics of the Yoo memos and of the United States' descent into a torture regime have been motivated by the "pleasure" of punishing "ideological opponents," an Read More...
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Few pleasures are more intense than that of contemplating one's ideological opponents being punished for their errors, an activity that we law professors have so far been able to indulge only in our fantasies. But the times are changing, or seem to be. Read More...
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