Topic
Torture
226 published works
The Right Coast
Pure speculation on Obama and torture Tom Smith
Here's what I think Obama might be doing. He released the memos, to get points with the left and very liberal, and/or to respond to pressure to do so. He…
The Right Coast
We’re less safe now but what a deal Tom Smith
David Ignatius from the Washington Post:Obama seems to think he can have it both ways -- authorizing an unprecedented disclosure of CIA operational methods and at the same time galvanizing…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Senate Committee Report on Detainee Treatment
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The Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday released its report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody, concluding that torture was approved by cabinet and other high-level officials in the…
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Torture: what would Leo Strauss do? Tom Smith
That's WWLSD to you noobes. It's kind of a code.I cannot find a video of the scene in the pilot of the Shield when Vic beats the location of a…
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Torture as a Partisan IssueMike Rappaport
The recent release of OLC Memos raise additional questions about the morality of the Bush Administration's decisions concerning coercive interrogations. For a sensitive assessment, see again Dale Carpenter's post. While…
The Right Coast
The New OLC Torture MemosMike Rappaport
Dale Carpenter, my colleague this semester, has a balanced and perceptive post on them.
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
The Torture Memos
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DOJ released four Bush era OLC memos today providing the legal justification for certain "enhanced interrogation techniques" of alien detainees held outside the United States. These newly released memos concluded that specific…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
DOJ Releases OLC Torture Memos, Promises not to Prosecute
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The Department of Justice today announced the release of four previously unreleased Bush era OLC memos providing the legal justifications for particular interrogation techniques--now commonly understood to include torture--of detainees in the war…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Filubuster Over Release of Torture Memos?
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Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster the appointments of Dawn Johnsen as OLC chief and Harold Koh as State Department legal counsel if President Obama releases three OLC memos from…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Spanish Court Moves to Investigate U.S. Officials for Torture
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The Spanish Audencia Nacional, the Spanish national security court, has taken the first steps toward investigating Bush administration officials for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay in violation of the Geneva Conventions…