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  • Amazing that Americans Have This Discussion

    Having studied American civics in grade school and high school, and having my doubts that Bush Cheney or anyone else in our current White House similarly learned about American history, traditions, institutions and law, it continually amazes me that this Bush Cheney Presidency has run riot so egregiously. Congress? Lay down. The Courts? Lay ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • More on Cheney Misunderstanding '24'

    The irony for Cheney, Woo et all is that their attempt to make ‘torture’ a political wedge issue backfired. Trying to justify torture as a matter of policy was politically stupid. Cheney would have been smarter to admit he was operating ‘outside the law’ on a few cases (recent reports show White House approval of torture on three known suspects ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by Squeek on July 28, 2008

  • This article is strangely off-focus

    Don't get me wrong, this article is well-researched and well-written. But how in the world can the doofus-tool Alberto Gonzales be regarded at the center of these crimes, when what he actually ''did'' was to conceal, obfuscate and carry water for the true evil-doers. It would be interesting to reconstruct the Venn diagram in terms of the ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by SamWind on July 28, 2008

  • Finally someone makes the crucial point

    When supporters of torture try to justify their position, it's always about the ticking time bomb scenario. That's because it's always easy to construct hypotheticals in which some heinous act appears to be less evil than some even more heinous alternative. But the whole point here is that this debate is about government policy and the law. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by marginnote on July 27, 2008