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International Law and Pakistan

By pharrell

There is some deep irony in the Bush Administration's conclusion--revealed in the New York Times this weekend--that "legal restrictions" prevented the U.S. from offering Pakistan our best technology for securing its nuclear warheads. Bush's is, after all, an administration that ignores legal restrictions on torture, on domestic spying, and on due process rights, programs that, whatever their merits, seem less critical to American security than securing known nuclear warheads against anti-American terrorists. But I suppose that the humdrum technical details of nuclear security lack the "24"-style sexiness of the Bush administration's other secret programs, and so, in this rare case, the lawyers got their way.

Full post as published by Harrell Blog on November 18, 2007 (boomark / email).