New Book Examines Legal Questions of Preemptive War

[FVZA_Colonel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060305/ts_nm/security_dershowitz_dc



New book examines legal questions of preemptive war
By Jason Szep

BOSTON (Reuters) - If U.S. officials overhear talk of a planned murder or rape while eavesdropping on a telephone call under President George W. Bush's domestic spying program, what can they do -- within the law -- to stop it?

"We don't know," said Harvard law professor and celebrated defense lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz. "Plainly we would not want them to ignore it" but no laws have been written to govern how the information can be used in court, he said.

"We wouldn't even know where to look to find the law because there is no law," Dershowitz, one of the nation's best-known defenders of civil rights, told Reuters in an interview.

In his new book, "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways," Dershowitz supports preventive counter-terrorism measures -- from wiretapping to profiling, mass inoculation, targeted extrajudicial killings and preemptive military action -- to head off attacks by suicide bomber and other terrorists.

[Viking12]

1. Dershowitz was on OnPoint Radio this week...

discussing the book and the issue of pre-emption. You can listen to the 1-hour conversation:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/03/20060301_a_main.asp

[daleo]

2. He is a sad case

Like Micheal Iganttief in Canada, liberals that lost their way.

He wants rules that allow the state to to break the rules. I don't think it can be done.

He also wants war with Iran.

"Dershowitz agrees with the use of preemption against threats like al Qaeda, including detention, preemptive restraint of free speech and even preemptive war with Iran if it appears to be arming itself with nuclear weapons."

They didn't mention whether he still advocates torture warrents.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Just read the Nuremburg Tribunal; SUPREME CRIME.

Or is it now a good thing Hitler did when he invaded Poland?

Is it now a good thing Japan did when they hit Pearl Harbor?

Are we revising those histories now too?

[The Stranger]

4. Has Alan Dershowitz lost his fucking mind?