Month: February 2008

The Pentagon ushered in the New Year with seemingly welcome news: Iraq’s security is improving. Attacks across the country fell 62% and, according to aid organization Iraqi Red Crescent, 20,000 Iraqi refugees returned home from Syria in December alone. The U.S. troop surge must be working. Even the Democratic opponents of President George Bush’s agenda … Continue reading “False Sense of Security in Iraq”

The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration Jack Goldsmith Norton, 2007 256 pp. The problem with hiring competent, principled attorneys is they don’t always tell you what you want to hear. That made Jack Goldsmith, briefly the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, an inconvenient Bush administration … Continue reading “The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration“