De-Commissioned
Will Pentagon blunders mean the end of military trials for terrorists?
Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
9/11 Plotters Are Araigned
. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.
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Medellin (and Bush) v. Texas
So see if you can follow this. George W. Bush, the imperial president of left-wing lampoon, orders his National Security Agency to intercept enemy communications without judicial warrant...
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Embassy-Bombing Trial in Jeopardy
Ahmed Ghailani has confessed to bombing the U.S. embassy in Tanzania twelve years ago. As he explained to the FBI in a series of 2007 interviews, he bought the TNT used in the explosion. He even...
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Re: re: Rick on Palin
I don’t often disagree with Peter, but there is nothing elegant about Rick’s assertion that “Conservatives love Palin because she has a Downs baby and an M-16.” It&r...
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Suspend the Writ
For the protection of our troops on the battlefield and the security of all Americans, Congress needs, right now, to take action to reverse Boumediene v....
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9/11 Plotters Are Arraigned
Unable to start a single trial in seven fitful years, much less complete one, President Bush’s troubled military commissions may be lumbering...
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Gonzales and McCain-Feingold
Throughout her tumultuous tenure as attorney general, Janet Reno could always rely on Democrats and liberals to circle the wagons when critics ripped her judgment, competence, and forthrightness....
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The Culture of Obstruction
Imagine for a moment a public official of the highest order. He was a confidant of the vice president and the president. Entrusted with the most sensitive national defense information, he enjoyed...
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Opposing View: Intelligence Comes First
The case of Maher Arar, a Canadian Muslim allegedly tortured in Syria after being taken there by the CIA, warrants scrutiny. So, indeed, does the whole practice of rendition, a favorite of the Cl...
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You Have the Right to Remain Silent
A number of friends and colleagues (both conservative and liberal) have either quarreled with or expressed alarm about my contention that the 2005 McCain Amendment conferred Miranda rights on ali...
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Enact the President’s Code for Military Commissions
In the raging 2006 controversy over military commissions lies the pressing 2008 question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain? The universal, reciprocal chivalry that guided wa...
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Lasering in on Leaks
Anger over the leaking of national-defense information by the media may have hit critical mass with the exposure, by the New York Times and other newspapers, of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Pro...
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The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous
No heroes in the port drama.
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Liberty vs. Terror Review of Protecting Liberty In An Age Of Terror by Philip B. Heyman
In a poisonous atmosphere where worthy debates over the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance are marred by risible analogies to the worst excesses of Watergate, a thoughtful book by two former h...
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McCain & Miranda
“Cruel, inhuman and degrading” may prove more dangerous than meets the eye.
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Constitution Confustion
President George W. Bush is the latest in a long line of American Caesars who have shredded the foundations of the Republic in an often racist and always imperialistic lust for territory, treasur...