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  • The World and the Century belong to America

    There are millions of people looking at what's happened to Somalia and have arrived a similiar conclusion: The World and the Century belong to America. America is the world's empire, traversing borders at will to carry out whatever mission is so desires. Of course it receives prelimary approval of the existing governments even if they are ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Usama2 on May 5, 2008

  • but what is the logic

    Help me understand this logic. The American state has done things that are horrendous in the name of national security and the fact that we have done those things means that we can do those things again if the American state feels its national security is threatened. That appears to be a fair gist. If not, let me know. Eric, you do not have to ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Benjamin Davis on April 7, 2008

  • Yoo analysis - permanent sleight of hand

    Over at opiniojuris.org they were asking us to look at alternative rules of statutory construction for this key part of the March 13, 2001 Yoo memo (around pages 36-39 and 40): Section 2340 defines the act of torture as an: act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Benjamin Davis on April 5, 2008

  • Hello legal scholars: two (or more) factual points here

    It is gratifying to read the analyses of how the overseas travel of administration attorneys or leaders could, in the future, expose them to prosecution in foreign courts for violations of national laws that give effect to the Geneva Convention, and incidentally cover related activities such as special rendition. [Note: read on after the excerpts ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Wilson Dizard III on April 4, 2008

  • Hello legal scholars: two (or more) factual points here

    It is gratifying to read the analyses of how the overseas travel of administration attorneys or leaders could, in the future, expose them to prosecution in foreign courts for violations of national laws that give effect to the Geneva Convention, and incidentally cover related activities such as special rendition. [Note: read on after the excerpts ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Wilson Dizard III on April 4, 2008

  • A critique of sweeping powers

    If I read the content of John Yoo's infamous argument and the general argument for sweeping war powers for the executive branch correctly, it goes as follows. First, after 9/11, the US was involved in a state of war with Al Qaeda based on self-defense, thus granting the executive branch uncurtailable war powers. Secondly, any investigations and ...
    Posted to Hot Document by akr884 on April 3, 2008