In 1776, our founding fathers made a bold pronouncement: that all men are created equal, that we were endowed with inalienable rights, and, among these were Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Enshrined in our Constitution were more bold pronouncements: that no man could be deprived of his rights, that no man [is] above the [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, CIA, Cindy Sheehan, Condoleezza Rice, Constitution, David Addington, David Vitter, Dick Cheney, DOJ, Donald Rumsfeld, FBI, George W Bush, Joe Darby, Law, Mark Foley, Mark Klein, Mike Connell, NSA, Ray McGovern, Rule of Law, Sibel Edmonds, Surveillance, Telecoms, Tyler Drumheller, Warrantless Wiretaps, Wiretapping
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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, Jay Bybee, 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, Jay Bybee, 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, Jay Bybee, 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, Jay Bybee, Jim Haynes, NATO, Spain, Torture
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John Yoo: At Berkeley, protesting is an everyday activity. I am used to it. I remind myself of West Berlin — West Berlin surrounded by East Germany during the Cold War. NYT: Are you saying the citizens of Berkeley are Communists, reminiscent of those on the dark side of the Iron Curtain? John Yoo: There [...]
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Apart from WMD there was no other conceivable foundation for an invasion. Using force to produce regime change on humanitarian grounds is not permissible under international law, and the attorney general told Blair as much in July 2002. Nor is there any way that the security council would have authorised it later on that year [...]
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Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, Crime, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W Bush, Invasion, Iraq War, Law, Sovereignty, War Crimes
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Friday, November 27, 2009
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJnQbPtgMAU[/youtube] 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, Jay Bybee, Law, Office of Legal Counsel, OLC, Robert Delahunty, Steven Bradbury, Torture
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