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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Subject: re: U.S. Widens Inquiries Into 2 Jail Deaths
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM
Subject: re: U.S. Widens Inquiries Into 2 Jail Deaths
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Under the circumstances, John Durham has done a remarkable job. The two deaths he identified need to be investigated further. But the Durham inquiry was crippled from the inception. He was charged only to investigate violations of the DoJ's guidelines. The president--and thus the whole Executive--is responsible not for the execution of DoJ guidelines, but to see that the law is faithfully executed. That means our statutes, our constitution and our treaty obligations, not some DoJ guideline document drafted in a back room. Those 200 other deaths can't be dismissed until they have been investigated to this tougher standard.
Barry Haskell Levine
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