Sunday, February 28, 2010
(Michael) Frisch eviscerated both the OPR report and the David Margolis memo. The key ethics inquiry, he argued, was under Rule 1.2(d)—whether Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury were actually counseling a crime. In this case, the evidence that their advice was designed to facilitate torture is clear-cut, torture is a felony, and multiple players putting a [...]
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Also tagged ABA, Crime, David Margolis, DOJ, Ethics, Felonies, John Yoo, Law, Michael Frisch, OPR, Torture
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Monday, February 22, 2010
The theological justification for al Qaeda’s wholesale slaughter of civilians was provided by Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl, one of the founding fathers of al Qaeda. Because the murder of innocents is forbidden in Islam and the murder of Muslims in particular, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden required some sort of [...]
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Also tagged Al Qaeda, Apostates, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Dick Cheney, DOJ, Dr Fadl, Ends Justify The Means, George W Bush, John Yoo, Jose Padilla, Justifications, Murder, Office of Legal Counsel, Osama bin Laden, Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, Takfir, Takfiri, Takfirism, Theology, Torture
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Friday, February 12, 2010
The NYT story also buried the significance of the timeline in the torture case. As both blogger-investigative journalist Marcy Wheeler and blogger-psychologist-activist Stephen Soldz have pointed out in articles Wednesday, the use of CIA-style “enhanced interrogation” torture was directly “conducted by the United States authorities prior to 17 May 2002 as part of a new strategy designed [...]
Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Corporatism, Corruption, Crime, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, George W Bush, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Law, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Rule of Law, War Crimes, William Rivers Pitt
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Three developments last week show the growing gap between the Obama Administration and its NATO allies with respect to the legacy of torture from the Bush era. They also demonstrate that, contrary to Obama’s promises faithfully to uphold the Convention Against Torture and Geneva Conventions, his Justice Department has no intention of doing so when [...]
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Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Canada, Cover-Ups, David Addington, David Margolis, Detainees, DOJ, Douglas Feith, Eric Holder, Ethics, Guantanamo, Jim Haynes, John Yoo, NATO, Spain, Torture
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Friday, November 27, 2009
The torture was originally outlined and sanctioned in 2002 by a series of memos drafted by lawyers in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. Were these lawyers simply giving the President their best legal advice? Or was their work part of a larger conspiracy to distort the law and authorize torture? Attorney [...]
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Also tagged Conspiracy, Crime, David Addington, Dick Cheney, DOJ, George W Bush, John Yoo, Law, Office of Legal Counsel, OLC, Robert Delahunty, Steven Bradbury, Torture
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