Legal Commentary

The Argument For A Special Prosecutor On Torture

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Lambert, Philip Heymann inadvertently makes an argument for a special prosecutor regarding torture:

“When you get one administration prosecuting its predecessor, you start creating the conditions of a banana republic,” said Philip Heymann, a law professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who served as deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton. “Every Republican in the country would think this was a dangerous attack on the two-party system.”

This is an argument for a special prosecutor, not against prosecutions.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).