Velvel: "The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration."

[jtrockville]

Dean of Massachusetts School of Law, Lawrence R. Velvel, posted this on his personal blog today.

The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration.

April 23, 2009

Re: The Four Torture Memos, Eichmann, And The Obama Administration.

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These memos are not an honest attempt to set the legal limits on interrogations, which was the authors’ statutory obligation. They were written to provide legal immunity for acts that are clearly illegal, immoral and a violation of this country’s most basic values.
It sounds like the plot of a mob film, except the lawyers asking how much their clients can get away with are from the C.I.A. and the lawyers coaching them on how to commit the abuses are from the Justice Department. And it all played out with the blessing of the defense secretary, the attorney general, the intelligence director and, most likely, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://velvelonnationalaffairs.blogspot.com/2009/04/four-torture-memos-eichmann-and-obama.html