Word: memoranda
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...Protests by the top legal officers in each of the military services - Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines - against questionable interrogation techniques were ignored by the Pentagon's top lawyer, who did not even bother to read memoranda outlining detailed legal objections to their...
...understand the complexities of McCain's position, it is first important to understand the legal game of hide and seek that the torture debate has become. Long before Bush Administration legal memoranda made techniques like waterboarding permissible for CIA detainees, many in Congress and the legal community assumed such methods were illegal under international agreements and U.S. criminal law. "There really wasn't any ambiguity in terms of waterboarding," explains Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University Law School...
...third in his investigative series on the Bush administration. The Harvard Book Store sponsored the sold-out event, held at First Parish Church, and the Cantabrigian crowd applauded Woodward’s critiques of the White House’s management of the Iraq war. Using previously undisclosed memoranda and an unprecedented access to Bush and high-ranking members of his administration, Woodward’s book describes how White House officials turned a deaf ear toward their own advisers, who predicted post-war chaos in Iraq as early as May of 2003. “These were their guys...
When asked about memoranda he had written while working for former Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Roberts stressed that the views he expressed in those documents represented the views of those administrations, not necessarily...
...said that judges frequently rely on lawyers’ briefs and clerks’ memoranda in drafting opinions. This results in a “cultural difference” between sourcing in the legal profession and other academic disciplines, Dershowitz said...