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"White House Dismissed Legal Advice On Detainees"

"White House Dismissed Legal Advice On Detainees": The Washington Post today contains a front page article that begins, "Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention policies in Guantanamo Bay if it did not pursue a more pragmatic legal strategy that considered the likely reaction of the Supreme Court. But such advice, issued periodically over the past six years, was ignored or discounted, according to current and former administration officials familiar with the debates."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).