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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
On Thursday, June 26, the House Judiciary Committee will conduct hearings into the legal genesis of the Bush Administration’s torture policies. Featured witnesses will be David Addington, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and University of California–Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo, who as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, was...
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Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
This year's survey of law books published by the Michigan Law Review, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 901 (2008), covers recent publications in the areas of administrative law, comparitive law, and international law, plus two very interesting reviews of classic literary works, namely Robert J. Delahunty and John C. Yoo's review of All Quiet on the Western Front, and Karen Engle's review of For Whom the Bell...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
... President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President, and Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo. Among the issues expected to be discussed are the use of stress and torture in interrogations, why many senior FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials failed to take strong actions after identifying interrogation abuses, and the recent Supreme Court 5-4 decision upholding habeas...
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Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... in February when his role in ensuring a just system of detainee trials at Guantanamo became public.John C. Yoo then a Justice Department lawyer was critical in prepring the key memorandums about detention policy. He's now a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.Only one of the five War Council collaborators now remains in office: David Addington,the abrasive, much hated...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
On Thursday, June 26, KPFA Radio will broadcast the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on torture. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo and David Addington, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President will testify.
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Fore Left! (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
A rather odd to explain a potential foreign policy regards the GWoT:Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”That's the presumptive National Security Advisor in a Barack Obama administration, one . Presumably the Pooh Bear analogy is in reference to changing our current strategy as to engaging enemies. Is he a genius...
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
... efforts to intercept intelligence.This created a quandary that then-Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo resolved in the OLC memo. Until this week, members of the public did not know exactly what the memo said. But two Democratic senators who had read the classified version asked that a sentence in the memo be declassified, and this week they released the result:The passage states that...
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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
... already that “ this report does not and cannot discuss the issues that OLC, Condi Rice, and John Ashcroft apparently faced tells you what we need to know about torture. ” Hmmm? Also, David Kurtz notes that: The IG’s report has been delayed in part because the Pentagon slow-rolled its review of the report for classified information. FBI Director Robert Mueller testified to Congress last month...
