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Scott Horton is a contributor to Harper's Magazine and writes No Comment for this website, www.harpers.org. A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton lectures at Columbia Law School.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Bread, Circuses, and the Edwards Prosecution
If Edwards can be imprisoned for using campaign funds to try to cover up his flaws, then few politicians could fairly escape prison. The Justice Department appears instead to be engaged in statutory vandalism, and it is awarding itself exceptional power to intrude into the electoral process--a power that is ripe for abuse, as the Edwards case demonstrates.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 15, 2012 The Drone Secrecy Farce
The Department of Justice "OLC Memo" is all about the despicable policies & cowardice of the CIA, its drone war in Yemen, covert assassinations & should be published in full, but that would require the White House & the Department of Justice to stop lying which isn't going to happen any time soon.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 11, 2011 Our Man in Cairo
With Mubarak's departure, the focus now falls on his chosen successor, Omar Suleiman. According to a classified American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks, Suleiman was Israel's pick to succeed Mubarak. But there's little doubt that he was also the choice of the United States, or at least of one particular American agency with which he has been closely tied through much of his career, the CIA.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 29, 2010 America's Corruption Racket in Central Asia
It is increasingly apparent that the United States is itself one of the most staggeringly corrupt actors in the region, willing to slide hundreds of millions of dollars under the carpet to foreign government officials to induce them to do Washington's bidding, on occasion doing this so crudely that it undermines the credibility of the government it has picked as an ally.
SHARE Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Thiessen and the "Al Qaeda Lawyers"
Lynn Cheney criticizes the DoJ for hiring lawyers who think Guantanamo prisoners have a right to a fair trial. WashPo has honored this idea with space on the OpEd page. Marc Thiessen's work at the WashPo looks like the work of a third-rate publicist, promoting the Cheney-Kristol Keep America Safe project. Just what is his relationship with this project? And why does WashPo let him do this for free from the editorial page?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Justice's Vendetta Against a Whistleblower: Six Questions for Jesselyn Radack
The DOJ has now given a pass to torture apologists and rationalizers John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
Jesselyn Radack is the only Justice Department attorney referred for disciplinary action. Her crime whistleblowing when the DOJ lied and hid evidence.
Scott Horton holds a very interesting conversation to get some answers on what's going on.
(20 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 16, 2010 Does Dick Cheney Want to be Prosecuted?
"I was a big supporter of waterboarding," Cheney said in an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday. Sec 2340A of the Federal Criminal Code makes it an offense to torture or to conspire to torture. What prosecutor can look away when a perpetrator mocks the law itself and revels in his role in violating it?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 19, 2010 The Official Response Begins
This adamant insistence on official anonymity does nothing to dispel the accusation of cover-up. Just the opposite: it suggests that the lawyers and FBI agents involved quite urgently wish not to have their names associated with it. And who could blame them?
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 19, 2010 The Guantánamo "Suicides": A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
Those charged with accounting for what happened--the prison command, the civilian and military investigative agencies, the Justice Department, and ultimately the attorney general himself--all face a choice between the rule of law and the expedience of political silence. Thus far, their choice has been unanimous.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 13, 2009 Freedom on the Horizon for Paul Minor
The Bush-era DOJ's case was an attempt to criminalize campaign funding practices in which an attorney supported the election campaign efforts of Dem judges.No comparable cases were ever brought vs Repub judges or those who financed them.The charges took the novel view that campaign contributions/campaign finance assistance can be viewed as bribes paid to judges.But this rationale was applied to only one side of the political
SHARE Friday, August 21, 2009 Rove's Sorry Victim Act
Rove's attacks are not from a position of strength. They're more akin to the pathetic lashings of a cornered feral animal. Perhaps Rove knows more than we do about the prosecutor's intentions with respect to his case.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 16, 2009 Karl Rove's Convenient Memory Lapses
Rove calls himself "Grendel,""Moby Dick,"&"Lord Voldemort"viewing the whole investigation as a sort of blood sport in which he is the crafty prey eluding his pursuers.He has repeatedly issued statements that sound like denials,but when examined closely turn out to be carefully constructed non-denials.Only one clear conclusion can be drawn from a review of the documents&Rove's own testimony:he's not coming clean with the facts.
SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2009 Prosecutors Under the Loupe
The government vehemently objects to a new judge,opposes an evidentiary hearing,and suggests that both the district court&court of appeals considered the defense's claims of jury tampering & jury misconduct to be harmless.The arguments are clearly designed to head off any serious investigation of the prosecutorial misconduct accusations, particularly the sort of investigation which has now been launched in the Stevens case.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Sexual Blackmail in the Siegelman Case?
What has Jeff Sessions so bothered? I have a hunch.Time's-Adam Zagorin-reported in 2007 that a key witness in the Siegelman investigation offered evidence implicating Sessions in bribery allegations far more substantial than those raised against Siegelman. The prosecutor handling the matter quickly scurried to sweep these allegations under the carpet.
SHARE Wednesday, April 29, 2009 The Stomach-Turning Truth About Bush's Torture Programs
The Bush administration went to great lengths to fabricate a narrative under which it agreed to demands from interrogators on the ground to allow the use of harsher methods, effectively "removing the shackles" on their interaction with prisoners. But the Senate Armed Services Committee report shows that the effort to introduce these techniques dates from 2001, before there were any prisoners.
SHARE Thursday, April 23, 2009 AGs Demand Siegelman Review
The links to the Stevens case are numerous.The grave prosecutorial misconduct that led to the decision to overturn Stevens' conviction is virtually identical to the accusations in the Siegelman case.The charges are also sustained in the Siegelman case,as in the Stevens case,by a whistleblower inside the prosecution team.Moreover,the cases involve many of the same prosecutors, now themselves under internal DoJ investigation
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Revealing the Secrets in Room 101
Now comes the test of our democracy–will we close the door and walk away, or demand to know what's been done in our name and hold those who guided any abuses to account for their misconduct? President Obama tells us there's nothing to see here, just move along. But this will be a test of whether we have a citizenry worthy of that name.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama?
If the president releases the Bush torture memos, Republicans are promising to "go nuclear" and filibuster his legal appointments. Scott Horton reports on a serious threat to Obama's transparency.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Subpoena Issued to Karl Rove: "Time to talk"
In sum, the tables have been turned on Karl Rove. He can continue to refuse to cooperate with Congress in their probe of the U.S. Attorney and Siegelman matters, but not without consequences. If he persists in defying the subpoenas, he may be headed to jail.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2009 UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush & Rumsfeld
Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteurresponsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush's head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama was obligated by international law to commence a criminal investigation into Bush's torture practices.