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02 Jul 2009 12:05 pm
Will Obama Now Defend Torture In Court?
I wish I knew that the answer was categorically not. But we've learned the hard way that the Obama Department of Justice can defend things it doesn't allegedly believe in, using arguments from the far right of the Bush administration. Well, as Chris Good explains, we may soon find out:
According to U.S. court
precedent,
now that Jawad's lawyers have questioned his confessions as
coerced, the burden now shifts to the Department of Justice to show
that they weren't. The court will hear arguments about the statements
at a hearing scheduled for August 5-6, according to Hafetz.
--- AS
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