Others will not let us forget – as they shouldn’t – even if we want to. The Spanish, through Baltasar Garzon, held Pinochet to account decades later. Now they turn the scrutiny of the law on the U.S., which has long and often sought to hold others to account. Who will we be in the […]
Journalistic Cowardice
Andrew Sullivan, of whom I have been quite critical of late, is nonetheless pursuing the U.S. torture issue – multiple times daily – with diligence and courage. He focuses not just on the lies and current self-serving campaign of Cheney and former Bush administration officials, but also on the cowardice and incompetence of even the […]
Torture and a Time of Reckoning
The final memos are out, another smoking gun, demonstrating how the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), through the “analyses” of its officials, Jay Bybee, Steven Bradbury, and John Yoo, provided legal cover for the Bush administration’s desired regime of torture. A very telling example, not of the specifics of the authorized torture, available […]
Affirmative Factions
Or how not to make social policy. There have been many newspaper reports in recent days on the upcoming, April 21, hearing by the Supreme Court of Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano, et al. – the Hartford Current and the New York Times among them. At issue is a 2004 promotion test within the New […]
The Greatness of George Washington
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, like his predecesor, thinks himself the indispensable man. Giuliani, after 9/11, considered seeking an extension of his second term to lead the city in its hour of trial as, he thought, no one else could. Even he didn’t do what Bloomberg did. Bloomberg, financier and billionaire – a […]