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This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases. An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.
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Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct. Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government...
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I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness. But I can decline to participate in the charade.
Good for this guy, and hopefully more of those obama is seeking advice from will also B****-slap him. Great letter.
You cannot prosecute somebody for giving you their best legal opinion - one that has been deliberated, researched and corroborated.
Of course you can... when it has not been deliberated, researched or corroborated. They may not be prosecuted but hopefully they will be disbarred. Do you need a law degree to know that it would be illegal for the President to order the testicles of a child to be crushed in order to get information from a detainee? That's what these so-called lawyers argued.
Of course you can... when it has not been deliberated, researched or corroborated. They may not be prosecuted but hopefully they will be disbarred. Do you need a law degree to know that it would be illegal for the President to order the testicles of a child to be crushed in order to get information from a detainee? That's what these so-called lawyers argued.
It is clear, the lawyers advising pres. bush did deliberate, research and came to a consensus.
Please provide a link to this argument about crushing testicles.
Look what happens when Obama extends a hand to the right wing columnist Andrew McCarthy. He insults Obama then the wingnuts post the insult on forums as a smear against Obama....LOL
Do you see now why it is foolish to give respect to those who wish you ill?
Here is the "security analyst" who declined to come to the table and be heard.
"Andrew McCarthy a conservative opinion columnist who writes for National Review and Commentary. He has defended the practice of waterboarding as not necessarily being torture in some situations to prosecute the War on Terror[2][3] whilst admitting that "waterboarding is close enough to torture that reasonable minds can differ on whether it is torture".[4]
McCarthy also thought it was a great idea to prosecute the Iraq War. He was one of the War's biggest cheerleaders....How's that for good advise!
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