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WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina, reports: Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her…

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You know Vincent Van Gogh, that Dutch painter who passed much of his life in the French Midi painting sunflowers, crows, and starry nights? He was prone to fits of…

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On April 27, Condoleezza Rice went to a reception at a Stanford University dormitory, which was followed by a private dinner with some of the students. Stanford undergrads Jeremy Cohn…

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Last week, President Obama comforted CIA agents by assuring them that there would be no prosecutions related to the torture program. But his words were carefully chosen. In fact, it…

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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: Prosecutors asked a judge to drop charges against two ex-AIPAC staffers accused of passing along classified information. In a statement Friday, the acting U.S. attorney…

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In a function sponsored by the New York City Bar Association last night, former Irish president Mary Robinson described a study that she and seven colleagues—prominent jurists from around the…

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In “Justice in the Gutter,” I discussed the mounting evidence that a Bush political appointee had exploited his sinecure in the Office of Juvenile Justice to funnel contracts to political…

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The Senate Intelligence Committee’s summary of the approval process showed National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and her legal counsel John Bellinger smack in the middle of the decisions to use…

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It’s typical in Beltway political discussion now to refer to demands for accountability for Bush Administration officials involved in the introduction of the torture program as “scapegoating.” This is a…

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Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome. She owns the fine house by the…

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Until lately the best thing that I was able to think of in favor of civilization, apart from blind acceptance of the order of the universe, was that it made…

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For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves…

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From the Washington Examiner: On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the…

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Baltasar Garzón is Spain’s best known judge. He’s also as determined a criminal investigator as can be found anywhere, and not one who cares much for the efforts of politicians…

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Judge Jay Bybee has been conspicuously absent from the discussion about his most famous opinions—not the ones he issued from the bench, but those he uttered just before leaving the…

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We lawyers have precious few heroes to worship. One of them, however, is Robert H. Jackson, probably America’s greatest attorney general, and a man who reflects a number of civic…

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My recent post on a Senate document concerning the approval of torture techniques requires correction in two respects. First, as already noted, Ed Whelan, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for…

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Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman and I discuss the issues surrounding Jay Bybee in a new release from the American News Project:…

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In the Sunday Washington Post, David Broder explains why all calls for accountability with respect to the Bush Administration’s introduction of torture techniques are not just wrong, they’re psychologically unhinged.…

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Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber take a look at Barack Obama’s attitude towards the political economy. The economic crisis dwarfs the other crises that Obama inherited, and his engagement of…

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Jetzund kömpt die Nacht herbey, Vieh und Menschen werden frey, Die gewüntschte Ruh geht an; Meine Sorge kömpt heran. Schöne gläntzt der Mondenschein; Vnd die Gülden Sternelein; Froh ist alles…

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Wenn ein Fürst Land und Leute nimmt; wenn ein Priester die Lehre seiner Kirche ohne Überzeugung vertritt, aber die Güter seiner Pfründe mit Würde verzehrt; wenn ein dünkelvoller Lehrer die…

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The key emerging defense of the torture-enablers is to say that the debate about torture is all a matter of simple policy differences, that we have one group historically who…

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Correction, April 29, 2009: This post requires correction in two respects. First, as already noted, Ed Whelan, former Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, has categorically…

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On Fox News, Karl Rove claims that a torture investigation of the Bush Administration would make the United States the “moral equivalent” of a Latin American dictatorship run by “colonels…

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Seventy-five former state attorneys general, Democrats and Republicans, have written to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he personally review the file relating to former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman.…

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White House spokesmen said on Sunday that there would be no prosecutions of those involved in writing legal memos or making policy that embraced torture. But on Tuesday, in the…

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I’ve watched footage of the White House press corps engaging with press secretary Robert Gibbs on the Obama about-face on a torture investigation several times now. Sam Stein has a…

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