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By Jack M. Balkin
"I saw the Geneva Conventions as a high-water mark of civilization." (p.39) [Pages 162-165 then present Feith himself as the stalwart defender of the Geneva Conventions during the early 2002 debates within the Administration.]
"Rumsfeld liked to cite the United States Constitution and often lectured his subordinates on scrupulous obedience to the law." (p.161)
[Referring to Abu Ghraib]: "Despite Rumsfeld's astute forebodings about becoming the world's jailer, he was not able to head the problems off." (p.165)
"The Administration, without controversy, had from the outset recognized [the Geneva Conventions] were applicable in Iraq."
Full post as published by Balkinization on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).
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