Archive for the 'terror' Category

The retroactive immunity for telecoms debate is not a needless fixation by liberals.  The driving issue is whether we are a nation of laws during times of peace and equally a nation of laws during times of war. 

The government and its supporters bellowed then, and taunt now,  that those who advocate lawful conduct by [...]


Thomas Sowell is a syndicated columnist and senior fellow for the conservative Hoover Institution.  Thomas Sowell’s recent article on the Valerie Plame affair http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/03/09/meatgrinder_politics proves there is a sound reason to have people pass a bar exam before they are authorized to practice law. 
Essentially,  Sowell wrongly asserts that because Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald learned early on that Armitage [...]


 
A fuming John Yoo,  famous author of specious legal arguments for ever greater war powers by this President, sounds personally affronted by the Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of his own arguments in “The high court’s Hamdan power grab” in the LA Times.   He accuses the Court of being “hostile,” via its “interference,” and in its “lack [...]


A few weeks ago, Ken Mehlman asked the public to write the White House and give their views on the secret CIA detainees now being transferred to
Guantanamo and how they should be treated and under what rules they should be tried.  

I did watch key excerpts of Mr. Bush’s address and now follow Mr. Mehlman’s [...]


With all due respect to recent comments by David Gelernter and Larry C. Johnson & their opposing views on the torture debate:  both miss the point. 
Johnson claims the limited value torture brings is offset by the committed enemies it creates and the limited quality of the information gathered by such methods. Gelernter believes that [...]