A group called Keep America Safe has published an ad (video available at KAS's website) criticising several Justice Department lawyers for having represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. I was glad to read that many prominent lawyers in … [Read more...]
Goldsmith on torture investigations
Jack Goldsmith was one of the good guys in the Bush administration, resisting the internal push by David Addington and John Yoo to essentially legalize torture. Therefore his opinion about how to proceed with corrective and preventative … [Read more...]
A republic — if you can keep it
I recently finished Jane Mayer's The Dark Side, which recounts the ugly, ongoing history of the Bush administration's policies of torture. As to whether torture happened, there simply can be no doubt; the volume and horror of the … [Read more...]
Impeach John Yoo!
The text of the outrageous and infamous March 2003 torture memo drafted by John Yoo, then Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, are now available here (part 1) and here (part 2). This, you may recall, is the … [Read more...]