"Clarity" means never having to say you're sorry
According to this NYTimes article, the White House has dropped the requirement of "clarity" in redefining the Geneva Conventions.
I called it two weeks ago. The only remaining White House requirement is the rewriting of the War Crimes act to allow retroactive immunity for the Geneva violating conduct already performed. The administration is rewriting law so that past war crimes committed will now become legal.
Somewhere, up there, Joseph Stalin is smiling down.
(And again, we talk about torture, but no mention of Arar.)
I called it two weeks ago. The only remaining White House requirement is the rewriting of the War Crimes act to allow retroactive immunity for the Geneva violating conduct already performed. The administration is rewriting law so that past war crimes committed will now become legal.
Somewhere, up there, Joseph Stalin is smiling down.
(And again, we talk about torture, but no mention of Arar.)
posted by mikevotes at
9:17 PM
2 Comments:
Isn't that unconstitutional?
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Lew Scannon, at 6:48 PM
Actually, I don't think it is. The Constitution says very clearly you can't make something retroactively illegal, but it has no language about legalizing past acts.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:51 PM
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