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...Goldsmith was actually the opposite of what his detractors imagined,” the Feb. 6 article said. “For nine months, from October 2003 to June 2004, he had been the central figure in a secret but intense rebellion of a small coterie of Bush administration lawyers...
...when Goldsmith first arrived in Cambridge in November 2004, he received a less than cordial welcome, with several Harvard Law professors opposing his appointment...
Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law Elizabeth Bartholet ’62 told the Boston Globe at the time that the school had erred in not inquiring into “any role Jack Goldsmith may have played in providing legal advice facilitating and justifying torture...
Newsweek however said that Goldsmith is not an “executive-power absolutist” and that he had argued in favor of the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention to U.S. actions in Iraq...
...Goldsmith, after becoming head of the Office of Legal Counsel in 2003, argued that the Convention’s ban on torture applied to Iraqis who were members of al Qaeda, the magazine reported...