Volokh co-conspirator and the only person to gratuitously use my name in a newspaper column, David Kopel has a sensible suggestion on having a reasonable discussion on Guantanamo Bay. The more plausible analogy to Guantanamo is British interrogation of Irish Republican Army suspects in the early 1970s. Then, the British extracted confessions through "the five […]
Sen. Dick "U.S. troops are like Nazis" Durbin might find it enlightening to read this New York Times story which describes what torture really is -- and it doesn't involve Christina Aguilera. When marines [sic] burst in, one of the captives was lying under a stairwell, badly beaten. At first, they thought he was dead. […]
Just for the record, for those who think that those on the right go easy on those who hold somewhat sympathetic views, federal prosecutors are looking to throw the book at James Kopp. Kopp murdered abortionist Barnett Slepian. Now, federal prosecutors in Buffalo are pressing their charges against Mr. Kopp, among them a charge that […]