Posted on 04/19/2009 4:39:26 AM PDT by Scanian
The pain of facing criminal prosecution in Spain has ended for six senior Bush administration officials who allegedly provided "legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay," according to The Washington Post. What remains of greater concern for all Americans is the core legal philosophy behind the prosecution and Harold Hongju Koh, President Barack Obama's nominee to be legal advisor to the U.S. Department of State.
No. 1: On January 22, Obama signed an executive order to close the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He has repeatedly accused or implied that the Bush administration routinely "tortured" suspected terrorist detainees at Gitmo in violation of U.S. and international law.
No. 2: On March 31, Obama nominated Koh, dean of Yale Law School. Koh served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in the Clinton administration. Koh's extensive writings, lectures, legal work, and deanship at Yale are those of a committed and aggressive advocate of "transnationalism." Koh's jurisprudence is fully supported by Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton.
Koh wants "customary international law," and "customary international norms" to be "internalized" into our foreign policy, federal statutes and our Constitution. In his essay, How International Human Rights Law is Enforced, 74 Ind. L.J. 1397, 1409 (1999), Koh argues that "internalization" of foreign law into U.S. law can be accomplished "through executive action, legislative action, judicial interpretation, or some combination of the three." Koh explained his theory in a lecture at Fordham Law School. [Forward video to 13 minutes.]
Koh is a fervent critic of the Bush administration, and has pushed to close Gitmo for several years. According to Fox News, Koh wrote in an article published in May 2006 in the Indiana Law Journal:
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Once again, I couldn’t even make this stuff up.
He has repeatedly accused or implied that the Bush administration routinely “tortured” suspected terrorist detainees at Gitmo in violation of U.S. and international law. I foregot someone tell me how many heads did Bush chop off.
He's embarrassed with the acts of his relatives and their friends.
Maybe he should go there are see if he can't convert them to his thinking ~ we've already done enough for Korea ~ we gave at the office!
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