March 05, 2009
Brian Tamahana explains exactly how atrocious the legal reasoning is in the OLC memos authored by Yoo, Bybee and (to a lesser extent) Delahunty. Here's an example: Some of the arguments veer into the bizarre. Consider this concluding passage from a Yoo-Delahunty memo arguing that the president can o...
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Xanthippas
at 7:47 PM
March 03, 2009
The Obama administration decided to release the DOJ OLC memos relating to the war on terror that the Bush administration had previously fought to keep secret. Unsurprisingly, the nine memos claim vast and sweeping powers on the part of the President to deal with any matter related to terrorism. Esse...
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February 26, 2009
Via ScotusBlog, the ACLU is reporting that the Obama administration is planning to take Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri out of custody at the naval brig in South Carolina where he is being held and try him in the criminal courts (h/t Adam.) The significance of this move lies in the fact that in doing so, ...
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February 24, 2009
READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries February 24, 2009 Harsh Medicine February 24, 2009 Obama Takes Another Crack at Commerce February 23, 2009 ‘Entitlements’ Take a Bum Rap February 23, 2009 Turn a Harsh Light Onto the Banks February 23, 2009 A Choice Between Peace and Peril...
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
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February 21, 2009
According to a Pentagon review ordered by President Obama. So... great. I'm proud of our military. But am I proud of our President who first promised to close the place and then got the study showing the facts relevant to the question whether it should be closed? Let's see if he can say now, as he h...
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at 10:21 AM
February 19, 2009
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker takes a hard look at a "hard case", Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who has been held in indefinite detention at the naval brig in Charleston, South Carolina, since 2003. There's too much worth excerpting to do a cut-and-paste of her article, so I recommend reading it in ful...
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February 18, 2009
Glenn Greenwald points to a NY Times piece by noted journalist Charlie Savage as evidence that the more things change, the more they stay the same: Savage lists several other examples of controversial Bush/Cheney "War on Terror" policies which have been either fully embraced or preliminarily welcome...
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February 17, 2009
Director : Errol Morris Release Date : 29 May 2008 (Germany) Genre : Documentary, Crime, War Cast : (Credited cast) , Christopher Bradley as MP Frost, Sarah Denning as M.P. Harman, Joshua Feinman as MP Elliot, Jeff L. Green as M.P. Catthcart, Merry Grissom as Interrogator, Roy Halo as Gus, Cyrus Kin...
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February 16, 2009
This article by Terry Teachout speaks to the power of music. Evidently the U. S. Government used various musical selections to torture the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Teachout concludes, I nevertheless find it significant — and not a little comforting — that the titles on Reprieve’s ...
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January 30, 2009
Now here’s the best idea I’ve heard all day: With the President ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the question arises: what to do with the prisoners there? Of course, there are some on the left that think they need to be released. This, despite ongoing reports of former detainees...
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