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nytimes.com - 1/12/2009

Op-Contributor - Not One Truth Commission, But Many - Op-Ed

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New Haven IN the past eight years, our government has tortured people and spied on its own citizens. Administration lawyers created a series of secret laws to justify these activities. The Justice Department has been riddled with scandals alleging corruption, illegality and incompetence. What ...

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nytimes.com - 1/9/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap

— nytimes.com — President-elect Barack Obama explained why the nation needs aggressive action to deal with the economic crisis, and... he’s right. But his economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap

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nytimes.com - 1/7/2009

Op-Ed Contributor: City of Cold Shoulders

— nytimes.com — It has become clear that the Senate’s power to reject Roland W. Burris is, at best, highly... debatable. The wisest course for the Senate is to end the dispute by accepting the appointment. > (more) Op-Ed Contributor: City of Cold Shoulders

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nytimes.com - 1/12/2009

Op-Ed Contributor - Justice Will Come Via History

— nytimes.com — Cambridge, Mass. IN the wake of the Abu Ghraib revelations, the White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, testified... before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005 that “we care very much about finding out what happened and holding people accountable.” ... (more) Op-Ed Contributor - Justice Will Come Via History

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Not The Night Of The Long Knives
Political Animal — Not The Night Of The Long Knives The NYT asked Charles Fried , Jack Balkin , and Dahlia Lithwick "how the incoming administration should deal with the legal legacy of the war on terrorism", or, more briefly, whether people who authorized torture, rendition, illegal surveillance, and so forth should be put on trial. As I've said before, I think they should. As Dahlia Lithwick says: "The Bush administration made its worst errors in judgment when it determined that the laws simply don't apply to certain people. If we declare presumptively that there can be no ...

Not The Night Of The Long Knives
Obsidian Wings — ... The NYT asked Charles Fried, Jack Balkin, and Dahlia Lithwick "how the incoming administration should deal with the legal legacy of the war on terrorism", or, more briefly, whether people who authorized torture, rendition, illegal surveillance, and so forth should be put on trial. As I've said before, I think they should. As Dahlia Lithwick says: ...