July 24, 2008
July 23, 2008
Question of the Day
Jacob Leibenluft has a useful "Explainer" today on the Presidential pardon power, but then comes up with this clunker: If someone hasn't yet been charged with a crime, how does the president know what to pardon them for? As in Nixon's case, President Bush could issue a pardon that applies generally to any crimes that may have been committed within...
July 22, 2008
The Upcoming Pardon Wave: Bring on the Disbarments!
To the surprise of exactly no one, in light of the torture scandal, the warrantless wiretapping scandal, the US Attorneys scandal, the Valerie Plame scandal, and the (fill in blank) scandal, conservative lawyers are pushing the Bush Administration for dozens of pardons for administration officials. Some of us, of course, predicted this months and even years ago (well, okay--a year...
March 21, 2008
August 18, 2007
June 13, 2006
Empathy damage assessment
Follow-up to post on Coleen Graffy's radio remark on GITMO suicides with estimated worldwide audience
June 12, 2006
Empathy
Three detainees at GITMO hanged themselves on Saturday. Colleen Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy (that is, under Karen Hughes), told a BBC radio news programme yesterday that the suicides were a good PR move to draw attention. (A Pentagon spokesman later dissociated himself from the phrase.) That's what I call really putting yourself in the other...
