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Torture
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The Right Coast
WaPo backs Cheney on EIT/torture Tom Smith
If you waterboarded me, I would tell you what you wanted to know, and apparently KSM was the same. Interesting also that this story would appear in the Post. There…
International Law Prof Blog
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Welcomes Appointment of Special Prosecutor to Investigate CIA Officers and Private Contractors
We received the following press release from the United Nations.The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed the decision by the United States Attorney-General to appoint…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Torture and OLC
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Former State Department Counselor Philip Zelikow testified yesterday before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Senate Judiciary Committee in its hearing, What Went Wrong: Torture and the Office…
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The pathetic Richard Cohen Tom Smith
Now he asks this question?Just for fun:T is a terrorist who has planted a device somewhere in NYC that will release a horrible biological that will cause many thousands of…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Lawyer Memos as a Basis for Criminal Charges
By Ellen Podgor
The media is certainly focusing on the "Torture Memos," as they should. See here, here, and here. But one aspect hasn't really been discussed and that is whether there should…
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Dr. Doright on torture Tom Smith
Dear Dr. Doright:I am a public official and I'm thinking it might be a good time for me to come out against torture. After 9/11 (remember that?! ;-D ) I…
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If torture is necessary to get people to buy GM cars, is it still wrong? Tom Smith
Of course not. Duh.Now we are going to have a GM owned by the UAW and the federal government, it looks like. Those are gunna be some kinda vehicles.
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Are the OLC lawyers criminally liable for the torture memos? Tom Smith
Lots here. I'm not an expert in this area, but I think the argument goes something like this. You can hold a lawyer criminally liable for giving a legal opinion…
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Presidential Poison Tom Smith
A must read lead editorial in the WSJ this morning on the torture investigation, or whatever it will be called.I'm just still in shock that Obama would do anything so…
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Yet still more on the torture debate Tom Smith
This from Gary Kamiya at Salon. Gary's argument is that torture is always wrong, except when there is a ticking bomb, which never happens. The always and never are in the…