professor of law

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." Alan Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard, wrote that judges should
be able to issue warrants licensing the torture of suspects where the
authorities somehow knew that the suspects were concealing information
about "an imminent large-scale threat".

In a recent paper for the New England Journal of Public Policy, Alfred McCoy,
a history professor at Wisconsin-Madison University, surveys the CIA's use of
torture over half a century in Vietnam, Central America and Iran, and marvels
at the recklessness of the commentators of 2001. "In weighing personal
liberty versus public safety," he writes, "all those pro-pain pundits were
ignorant of torture's complexly perverse psychopathology, that leads to both
uncontrolled proliferation of the practice and long-term damage to the
perpetrator society."

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In January 2002 the senior White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales - now attorney
general - writes to Bush claiming that there have never been wars before in
which civilians are "wantonly" killed, or where it has been necessary
to "quickly obtain information" from prisoners. The Geneva Convention, he
argues, is a quaint relic. "In my judgement," he tells the president, "this new
paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy
prisoners."

he he, good one

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> there have never been wars before in
> which civilians are "wantonly" killed,

I mean, it's not like the US or its proxies have ever wantonly kill civilians.
Never ever.

Here is what Gonzales really said:

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Here is what Gonzales really said:

"As you [ the president] said, the war against terrorism is a new kind of war.
It is not the traditional clash between nations adhering to the laws of war that
formed the backdrop of the GPW (Geneva Protocols on War). The nature of the new
war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly
obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid
further atrocities against American civilians, and the need to try terrorists
for war crimes such as wantonly killing civilians. In my judgment, this new
paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy
prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions requiring that captured
enemy be afforded such things as commissary privileges, scrip, (advances in
monthly pay), athletic uniforms, and scientific instruments."