Goldsmith

Goldsmith provides ring of confidence

Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

DON'T LET your heart rule your head if your Christmas shopping plans involve a trip to the jewellers to buy a ring.

Jack Goldsmith: Rule of Law Is a Threat to National Security

Puadkee (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008

Jack Goldsmith: Rule of Law Is a Threat to National Security Hard to believe that the same man who resigned from the Office of Legal Counsel after nine months of battling the Bush administration over atrociously reasoned legal justifications for torture and limitless presidential power is now arguing that the incoming president should abandon any plans to pro... Read the full post from Comments...

Goldsmith on torture investigations

Blue Mass. Group - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

Jack Goldsmith was one of the good guys in the Bush administration, resisting the internal push by David Addington and John Yoo to essentially legalize torture. Therefore his opinion about how to proceed with corrective and preventative action deserves some attention. Essentially he says let the current investigations run their course, and discourages the Obama administration from pursuing...

Zac Goldsmith's vendetta continues

The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

... have the balls to speak out."Possibly. But only if they want to forsake a front bench career. Zac Goldsmith is calling the shots on this one, and if David Cameron is ever forced to choose between Zac and the "substantial number of Shadow Cabinet members who are furious at Villiers' stance," he will choose his Old Etonian chum every time.Cameron's low opinion of his Shadow Cabinet is well...

Jack Goldsmith: No new torture probes

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

here has been much speculation about how the Obama administration will deal with what many view as the Bush administration's harsh, abusive and illegal interrogation program. Some have called for an investigation by Congress or the Justice Department, possibly leading to criminal sanctions. Others think such investigations are infeasible or would smack of political retribution, proposing instead that...

• Jack Goldsmith on Investigating the Bush Administration - Exploring International Law
• Turley: By Refusing To Pardon Torture Officials, Bush Is Allowing Democrats To Repair His Legacy - Think Progress

JACK GOLDSMITH: No New Torture Probes. “The lesson learned by many at the agency is that politicall…

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

JACK GOLDSMITH: No New Torture Probes. “The lesson learned by many at the agency is that politically sensitive counterterrorism actions should be avoided, even if they are deemed legal and even if they have the express approval of political officials. We are going to be living with this skittishness for a long time, to [...]

JACK GOLDSMITH: DOES EUROPE BELIEVE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW? Based on the record, it has no grounds t…

Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

JACK GOLDSMITH: DOES EUROPE BELIEVE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW? Based on the record, it has no grounds to criticize the U.S. “In fact, Europe’s commitment to international law is largely rhetorical. Like the Bush administration, Europeans obey international law when it advances their interests and discard it when it does not.”

Jack Goldsmith on Investigating the Bush Administration

Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

Jack GoldsmithJack Goldsmith has a very thoughtful op ed in today's Washington Post about the prospects of conducting investigations into the Bush Admnistration treatment of detain

Those Dancing Days & Sky Larkin at the Goldsmiths

SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008

Those Dancing Days It's taters out and the train line to New Cross Gate is playing up but I arrive at the Goldsmiths Pleasure Dome in good humour, suitably refreshed from a moistening detour to the Hobgoblin pub. This being a college, the bar is naturally cheap but even the subsidised booze can only distract me for so long. It's a Monday, ten o'clock and the first act have yet to come on. When...

Historians

Unionsites, by Prometheus - (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008

According to the assessments of the historians, this amazing workmanship among the Colombian goldsmiths had developed during the first millenium before Christ-that is, about the time King Soloman was making his temple. Although the Spaniards never found El Dorado, they did hunt out lots of gold. During a short span of time of only 10 years-that is, from 1551 to 1560-Spanish ships from the New...

'Confessions' Allowed in Goldsmith Murder Trial

All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008

MOST of the allegedly self-incriminating statements that were made by two young men who are charged with robbing and murdering a 79-year-old goldsmith at Okahandja more than six years ago were ruled to be admissible as evidence in their trial in the High Court in Windhoek last week.

Creative Screenwriting: Co-Writer Timothy J. Sexton on Children of Men

Dialogic (Free subscription) | yesterday

Children of Men Q&A Creative Screenwriting Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-writer Timothy J. Sexton abut Children of Men To Listen to the Interview

Anne Sportun Jewelry

The Jewelry Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Goldsmith and Jewelry Designer Canadian designer Anne Sportun intended to spend her professional life as an archaeologist. Driven by her belief in a universal language of shapes and symbols, she often looked to nature for inspiration. As a jewelry artist , Anne Sportun has found perfection in organic forms, and she subtly translates these forms into her work. Unabashed White Topaz Ring Her...

Creative Screenwriting: Co-Writer Timothy J. Sexton on Children of Men

Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | yesterday

Children of Men Q&A Creative Screenwriting Senior Editor Jeff Goldsmith interviews co-writer Timothy J. Sexton abut Children of Men To Listen to the Interview

Retribution and the mask of Athena

The RBC (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008

Via Glenn Greenwald, an op-ed by Jack Goldsmith, one of the few civilian lawyers who served the Bush Administration at a high level and emerged with honour:The people in government who made mistakes or who acted in ways that seemed reasonable at the time but now seem inappropriate have been held publicly accountable by severe criticism, suffering enormous reputational and, in some instances,...