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...Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members who alleged that he had helped the Bush administration devise a policy justifying harsh treatment of detainees. Goldsmith’s predecessor as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel signed a now-infamous Aug. 1, 2002 memo, which said that torturing suspected terrorists “may be justified” under...
...according to a Wall Street Journal report published Friday, Goldsmith used his power as an assistant attorney general last June to withdraw the so-called “torture memo.” Goldsmith began drafting a new policy, released by the Office of Legal Counsel last week, reversing the earlier memo...
Newsweek also reported late last month that Goldsmith voiced his concerns over the 2002 memo in a “tense meeting” with White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales last June. Gonzales, a 1982 HLS graduate, is Bush’s nominee for attorney general...
According to Newsweek, Goldsmith resigned from his post last summer “at least partly due to his discomfort about the [2002] memo...
...previously stated that the idea came from a memo he had written for the Secretary of State concerning the ethics of a preemptive strike against a nascent nuclear program. The moral problem continued to fascinate him until it found an expression in fiction...