Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/washington/09lawyers.html?em

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Subject: re: Terror-War Fallout Lingers Over Bush Lawyers
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To the Editor:

   Messrs Savage and Shane blandly deny that the Nuremberg trials provide meaningful precedent for trying members of the Bush administration. They offer nothing to substantiate the distinction. While no precedent is perfect, there is credible evidence that members of the Bush administration participated in violations of our statutes and treaty obligations as German judges participated in Nazi outrages. Of course the cases are not the same; Adolf Hitler was duly elected in 1933, while George W. Bush was installed by an extraordinary intervention of our Supreme Court.

Barry Levine