Word: goldsmith
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Shattuck Professor of Law Jack L. Goldsmith, who was accused at the time of his appointment of supporting torture while serving in the Bush administration, in fact fought against the administration’s drive to increase executive power and justify torture, Newsweek magazine reported earlier this month...
...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...
...governmentally organized systems of cruelty.” One key and controversial legal advisor to the Bush administration—now on the Harvard Law faculty—was originally scheduled to participate in last night’s event. Professor of Law Jack L. Goldsmith, who held high-level posts at the Pentagon and the Justice Department during President Bush’s first term, was criticized by a handful of Harvard Law School faculty members last year who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration justify harsh treatment of detainees. But the Wall Street Journal and other...
...series earned Willman the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He also netted two nominations for the Kennedy School’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting—one in 2000 and the other...