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...response marks a slight decrease from 2004—the earliest date provided in the memo??and a slight increase from 2005, despite efforts by the College to improve advising...
...host, say, Private Lyndie England, who on the retina of the collective imagination will be forever giving the thumbs-up to the degradation of a fellow human being. But the Harvard Law School Federalist Society thought nothing of inviting Judge Jay S. Bybee, whose infamous “torture memo?? of August 2002 gave the thumbs-up to the degradation of hundreds—if not thousands—of human beings, to give a speech on constitutional law.By not only hosting Bybee but guaranteeing him a forum free of dissent, the Federalist Society has made Harvard complicit...
...Justice Department work was exactly what the human rights activists focused on.“Jay Bybee helped formulate policies that have violated the fundamental rights of hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings,” Li said, referring to the August 2002 “torture memo?? produced by the Office of Legal Counsel and signed by Bybee. The memo said that the torture of al Qaeda terrorists held abroad “may be justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president’s authority. Many legal...
While the Economist called the memo??s language “crass,” they extended an appeal for balance at the end of their article, asking readers to “look at it another way: Mr. Summers is asking questions that the World Bank would rather ignore—and, on the economics, his points are hard to answer...
...infamous memo?? was not forgotten, however. According to a January 1993 article in the Economist, Vice President Al Gore ’69’s decision to veto Summers’ bid to chair the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton Administration was a direct result of the memo??and the Journal’s Alan Murray, who has since become an assistant managing editor at the paper, says that most of Summers’ image problems can be traced back to that one incident...