Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Bench: The Bush Six: newyorker.com

THE UNIQUE RESPONSIBILITY OF LAWYERS TO UPHOLD JUSTICE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES AND THOSE WHO TAKE THIS RESPONSIBILITY


The Bench: The Bush Six: newyorker.com (HERE)

by Jane Mayer


"Philippe Sands is a law professor and a certified Queen’s Counsel (the kind of barrister who on occasion wears a powdered horsehair wig) who works at the same law practice as Cherie Blair. " Sands’s book, “Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law" ,” offers a forensic investigation of deception at the highest levels of White House and of the steps taken by Bush officials to that shiled those responsible for the "American Torture Program".


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