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Bush DOJ Vets Defend Holder's KSM Decisions

Washington Post | Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Eric Holder, Comey Goldsmith Ksm, Ksm, Jack Goldsmith, Obama Ksm, Jim Comey, Holder Ksm, Ksm Prosecution, Politics News

Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 perpetr...

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Decanting the Truth

Jim Lichtman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Ashcroft, John Yoo, Andrew Card, Jack Goldsmith, James Comey, President Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Vice President Cheney, Jay S. Bybee, Torture, Politics News
Jim Lichtman

In a press interview regarding the Iraq war, Vice-President Dick Cheney was asked "Over 70 percent of Americans disagree with this war, what is your r...

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News
David Quigg

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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Bush Rejected Ashcroft's DOJ Picks In Favor Of Torture-Legalizing Loyalist

Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, George W, Bush, Justice Department, Bush Administration Interrogation Techniques, Bush Administration Torture Legalizing, John Ashcroft, Bush Justice Department, John Yoo, Jack Goldsmith, John Yoo Memo, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, John Yoo Torture, Politics News

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...

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Former Bush Lawyer On Spy Program: "The Biggest Legal Mess I Had Ever Encountered"

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jack Goldsmith, Eavesdropping Program, Goldsmith Administration, Politics News

Jack L. Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who led the Justice Department office that objected to a Bush administration domestic eavesdropping plan, t...

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