slate.com - 12/17/2008
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John Yoo. Click image to expand. Former Department of Justice official John Yoo John Yoo and other lawyers who were involved in developing the Bush administration's interrogation policies have been roundly criticized for the shoddy and controversial nature of their legal advice. And yet even ...
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Attorneys have it so hard. Their advice must be given freely without fear. Or not.
. . . attorneys are hardly the only ones who must make difficult decisions in times of war. American soldiers, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, are duty-bound to obey only lawful orders. Indeed, since the Nuremberg trials, it has been a fundamental precept of international law that soldiers must disobey orders to commit war crimes. If soldiers are supposed to differentiate between lawful and unlawful ...
Bringing John Yoo To Justice
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... The complicity of lawyers in enabling government torture and abuse of prisoners is real. And the precedents that the US once set in prosecuting them clear: ...
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