- 9/11 panel: No al Qaeda cooperation with Iraq – front-page news everywhere but on Fox News
- Travesty of Justice –
No question: John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in history.
- Media starts to catch on that Ashcroft is a total douche bag
- Jose Padilla: Convicted without a hearing
Padilla is functionally a convicted terrorist, first imprisoned and now thoroughly stigmatized, without benefit of any of the constitutional safeguards embodied in the Bill of Rights. He has not had the right to remain silent; he has not had access to his lawyer; he has not been allowed to cross-examine witnesses or even to know who they are.
- OLC’s Aug. 1, 2002 Torture Memo (“the Bybee Memo”) – excellent review of the memo
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