harpers.org - 1/1/2009
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Scott Horton In the view of Carl Schmitt and other critics of traditional liberalism on the European hard right (though later picked up and echoed by some in the critical studies movement on the American left), the liberal system produced hopeless legal indeterminacy. Who could say what the law ...
harpers.org - 1/6/2009
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Scott Horton Yesterday, President-elect Obama announced two key
members for his national security team: former Clinton chief-of-staff...
Leon Panetta to be director at the CIA and Admiral Dennis Blair to be national intelligence director. The Panetta ...
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A not so nice synopsis of where we stand.
The United States position staked out by Mukasey & Co. is simple enough. We can waterboard, or use other torture techniques like long-time standing, stress positions, hypothermia or sleep deprivation in excess of two days, and it’s just fine. But if other governments use these techniques on Americans, we’ll say that’s torture.
Yeah, that’s torture. “Federal prosecutors in ...
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