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Convictions: Slate's blog on legal issues
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With all due respect to Chris Edley, whom I admire, and the University of California, to which I owe a great deal, I think Edley's position on John Yoo gets it exactly wrong — and epitomizes why people deride the "Ivory Tower" as insulated from reality. Read More...
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In response to many calls for possible dismissal (or at least investigation) of John Yoo at the Boalt (Cal Berkeley) School of Law, Dean Chris Edley yesterday issued a memorandum strongly rejecting the idea (albeit reserving some harsh words for Yoo's Read More...
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Jonathan Hafetz directs litigation for the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. His thoughts on the torture memo and Guantanamo, below: John Yoo’s recently released March 14, 2003, OLC memo is a tour Read More...
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I appreciate Marty's effort to be conciliatory, but in the process he very seriously misrepresented my views and those of a frequent collaborator. Marty says that he is "heartened that [I am] no longer defending the idea that the Yoo/Addington theories 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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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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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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After reading the March 2003 memo ( NYT and WP ), I feel like the youngest kid at Passover dinner, who by tradition asks the question "How is this night different from all other nights?" Except that in this case, I'm left with the question of "How is Read More...
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