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...very candid so far." Biden vowed a withering cross-examination in his second round-and then disappeared for the day. Senator Charles Schumer spent his time nattering on about Senate filibuster rules. But Senator Patrick Leahy did induce Gonzales to admit that, as White House counsel, he had consulted with the Justice Department's office of legal counsel about the torture memo. There were meetings in his White House office. Techniques like waterboarding-in which a detainee is strapped down and made to believe he may be drowned-may have been discussed. Gonzales allowed that he could not quite recall...
Goldsmith faced criticism last month from a handful of Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
...according to a Wall Street Journal report published Friday, Goldsmith used his power as an assistant attorney general last June to withdraw the so-called “torture memo.” Goldsmith began drafting a new policy, released by the Office of Legal Counsel last week, reversing the earlier memo...
Newsweek also reported late last month that Goldsmith voiced his concerns over the 2002 memo in a “tense meeting” with White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales last June. Gonzales, a 1982 HLS graduate, is Bush’s nominee for attorney general...
...health: after a judge placed him under house arrest in January 2001, the Santiago Appeals Court ruled that Pinochet was indeed medically unfit to stand trial and so forced prosecutors to abandon the case against him. Until yesterday, that medical defense held fast. Though his defense counsel has pledged to appeal yesterday’s indictment to Chile’s highest court, it seems now that the slippery General may at last be at the end of his luck...