9 June 2004
Beautiful post on the Constitution
Beautiful Horizons (whose author is a Norteamericano living in New York with my Brazilian wife and a passion for Latin American travel
) recently posted a lucid explanation of the legal basis of the US adhering to international law on torture. Thank you for cutting through the haze of our current administration's double-talk.
Q: So the terms of the Convention Against Torture is the law of the land in the United States, right?
A: Yes it is...
The entire Q&A is short and to the point. Go read.
Another pithy post on torture, this time regarding the Office of Legal Counsel's memo from 1 August 2002.
This OLC document is a legalistic, logic-chopping brief for the torturer. Its entire thrust is justifying maximal pain.A dense, legal analysis of a dense, legal document.
Jon Stewart, incredulous as Ashcroft refuses to supply Senate Judiciary Committee with Justice Deptartment memos.
Attorney General John Ashcroft:
I am refusing to disclose these memos.
I have not invoked executive privilege today. ... I have not invoked anything.
Sen. Dick Durbin:
With all due respect, your personal belief is not a law and you are not citing a law. ... and frankly, that is what contempt of Congress is all about.
Sen. Joseph Biden:
You are not allowed under our Constitution not to answer our questions.
There's a reason why we sign these treaties: to protect my son in the military. That's why we have these treaties, so when Americans are captured they are not tortured.
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