I think both parties should be discussing the Obama Administration's recent failed attempt to replace Attorney General Eric Holder with Prof. John Yoo...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 03.18.2012
It's now 10 years after the indefinite detention prison of Guantanamo was created. With the recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act broadening, the U.S. government seems to have given up on ever righting itself.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011
Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011
If we're playing Jeopardy, and we are, this would be the answer: It's the real no-brainer answer to the legal and ethical questions posed by the ...
Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011
The Defense Department now obstructs justice by suppressing evidence of its own criminal actions. This sordid history indicates the perverse depths to which our nation has unfortunately fallen.
Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011
Please consider participating in a 24 hour Fast Against Torture in memory of all those illegally and unethically tortured around the world, including, most importantly, those tortured and waterboarded by the Bush-Cheney Administration.
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011
John Yoo, Bush administration lawyer and author of the notorious "torture memos" called a Justice Department ethics probe of his conduct and recommend...
Ira Glasser | Posted 05.25.2011
Can the President of the United States override any domestic law as well as any international law as a consequence of his war powers under the Constitution?
David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011
Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.
Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011
It is sorry commentary on our political culture that we have Jon Stewart to thank, rather than a political reporter from the mainstream press, for subjecting John Yoo to the toughest questioning.
Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011
The lack of clear ethical rules and the frontier justice mentality in Iceland continues to cause confusion and raise questions about the legal profession's ability to regulate itself in Iceland.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011
If we who prosecuted Germans at Nuremberg refuse to hold Americans to the same standard, we are depriving Nuremberg of its precedential value.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynami...
The Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011
In an interview yesterday with the Orange County Register, picked up by Jason Leopold at The Public Record, John Yoo says he doesn't regret the substa...
Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011
The release this week of the "secret memos" confirms that Bush's legal architects were building up the framework for something even scarier than our most anguished projections.
Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and off...
The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday I pointed you to this big scoop in Newsweek reporting that an internal Justice Department review conducted under the Bush administration had...
Overruled | Posted 05.25.2011
Academic freedom is very important. Universities exist to produce knowledge, unconstrained by political winds or the whims of wealthy donors. If pro...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called ...
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft offered the White House a list of five candidates to lead the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel in ear...
Errol Morris | Posted 05.25.2011
There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? This week, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror...
Marty Robins | Posted 03.22.2012