Ethics

Bainbridge v Horton on Garzon Prosecution

By Ed Brayton

Law professor Stephen Bainbridge and Scott Horton are having an exchange over the question of whether John Yoo should be held legally accountable for writing the memos that justified torture by the Bush administration, in the context of possible prosecution by Judge Garzon in Spain. And despite the fact that I am a vocal opponent of torture and a vocal advocate of prosecutions for those who ordered torture in the Bush administration, I think this is a closer call. Bainbridge lays out the argument for leaving Yoo out of any prosecutions:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).