Word: goldsmith
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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...
...Goldsmith who pushed to disavow the famous 2002 memo justifying torture after it was leaked to The Washington Post in June 2004, according to the article. By the end of the summer, he had left the administration, and in November, he joined the faculty at Harvard Law School...
Despite media reports in January 2005 that Goldsmith had opposed the torture memos, his critics were not mollified. Bartholet told The Crimson then that “nothing makes it clear that [Goldsmith] was not involved in providing problematic legal advice...