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Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith, a specialist in international and Internet law, ran the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush from October of 2003 through June of 2004.
Goldsmith was instrumental in withdrawing two infamous torture memos which, Goldsmith pointed out, violated the Geneva Conventions, the War Crimes Act of 1996, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
David Addington, Dick Cheney's current chief of staff, who was Cheney's his adviser at the time, reportedly replied, "The president has already decided that terrorists do not receive Geneva Convention protections.You cannot question his decision."
Goldsmith's 2007 book, The Terror Presidency details his experiences in The White House, including his discomfort with the continued effort to both expand the President's legal legal powers and exercise severe interrogation techniques on expected terrorists.
Quotes:
- "The president and the vice president always made clear that a central administration priority was to maintain and expand the president’s formal legal powers."
- (If President Bush's) "accomplishments are viewed more charitably by future historians than they are viewed today, (they will) "likely always be dimmed by our knowledge of his administration’s strange and unattractive views of presidential power."
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Jack Goldsmith on Amazon
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Greatest Sci-Fi Film Themes - $18.97
2008 two CD collection includes music from popular Sci-Fi films, all performed by The City Of Prague Philharmonic and The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. For nearly 100 years, Hollywood's moviemakers and composers have looked to the s...
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Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World - $15.95
Is the Internet erasing national borders? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net--Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith a...
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The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration - $16.95
<strong>A central player's account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advis...
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The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration - $16.95
<strong>A central player’s account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith’s duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush on...
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