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28 Aug 2009, 1:57 am
They were the get out of jail free card.Next, we have Jack Goldsmith carefully dancing around the Yoo/Bybee torture memos in a pair of letters to the CIA dated May 27th 2004 and July 7, 2004. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 1:32 am
The Democrats will assent to our new American torture regime no matter how grotesque and outrageous the story gets, no matter to what degree the Department of Justice's integrity and independence were compromised.In short, the story is this: Jack Goldsmith left OLC before he could complete the "replacement" torture opinion. [read post]
26 Jul 2007, 7:56 pm
When, for the first time, Program X (as we'll call it, for convenience's sake) became known to senior Justice Department officials who were not its original architects, those officials -- James Comey and Jack Goldsmith, principally -- balked at its continuation. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 8:03 am by Deborah Pearlstein
Jack Goldsmith is no longer arguing in favor of a statutory fix to the Guantanamo problem in the form of a clearer AUMF-type authorization. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 8:51 am by Deborah Pearlstein
Jack Goldsmith is no longer arguing in favor of a statutory fix to the Guantanamo problem in the form of a clearer AUMF-type authorization. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 7:26 am
(That is to say: Each might have been expected to think for themselves and interpret the law in ways that diverged from the John Yoo opinions.)The impasse led to the hiring of Jack Goldsmith, who the White House assumed would be a "safer" choice. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 9:24 pm
  Jack Goldsmith, who can claim a measure of credibility and who has seen classified information that we have not, says: "I agreed with President Bush that revelations by Risen and Lichtblau had alerted our enemies, put our citizens at risk, and done ‘great harm' to the nation. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 6:51 pm
In the past year, Slate has run stories by Bruce Ackerman, Ahkil Amar, Frank Bowman, Bill Eskridge, David Fontana, Richard Thompson Ford, Bennett Gershman, Jack Goldsmith, Rick Hasen Orin Kerr, Neal Katyal, Marty Lederman, Eric Posner, Jamin Raskin, Jim Ryan and Kenji Yoshino (and I'm sure I missed a few too). [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 4:14 pm
And, as Jack Goldsmith forthrightly admits, the brunt of his criticism of his former colleagues is procedural, focusing on their arrogant unilateralism, rather on the substance of their policies. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 6:13 am by Deborah Pearlstein
Jack Goldsmith nonetheless views the Savage piece as fodder for his book’s claim that executive power invariably expands over time, and that while Obama maybe held back in his first few years in office, even Obama is now seeing the light, as it were. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 9:30 pm by Ilya Somin
For example, even many conservative legal scholars such as Jack Goldsmith and my frequent coauthor John McGinnis, rejected the Bush Administration's claims to virtually unlimited wartime executive power, as did nearly all liberal and libertarian ones. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 4:39 am by Amy Howe
  Commentary on the case comes from Akiva Shapiro in The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Garrett Epps for The Atlantic, Eugene Kontorovich of The Volokh Conspiracy (parts one and two), Marty Lederman at Just Security, Jack Goldsmith at Lawfare, Michael Ramsey at The Originalism Blog, Gershom Gorenberg in The American Prospect, and Peter Spiro at Opinio Juris. [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 6:58 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
In that vein, I can't recommend Jack Goldsmith's recent editorial in the Washington Post, "Why the U.S. [read post]
8 Oct 2011, 6:48 pm by Kenneth Anderson
As Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes have argued at Lawfare, and I have argued here and at Opinio Juris, although it is certainly helpful to have a summary in the press about the issues discussed in the secret memo and their resolution, the fact that it is merely leaked, quite apart from not making available the actual text, is a grave part of the problem here. [read post]
15 Jun 2024, 6:00 am by Just Security
Bradley (@curtisabradley), Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) and Oona A. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 10:53 am
  I've just learned (I guess a couple days late) that Jack Goldsmith's successor at OLC, Dan Levin, was apparently sufficiently concerned about the propriety of waterboarding that he arranged to have it performed on himself at a nearby Navy base. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 7:18 am
by Duncan Hollis I had the good fortune to be invited to lecture to Jack Goldsmith’s class on Cyberwar and Cybercrime at Harvard Law School last week to discuss my arguments for why we need new international law rules for cyberconflicts. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 10:51 am
The contributors include David Kris, author of National Security Investigations and Prosecutions and assistant attorney general for the National Security Division; Jack Goldsmith, author of The Terror Presidency and former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel; David Martin, now principal deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security; Mark Gitenstein, former chief counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee and current Ambassador to Romania;… [read post]