February 4, 2009
Jeremy Paxman interview with Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales, who was President Bush’s White House lawyer and who told the president that parts of the Geneva Convention were quaint and obsolete. No doubt he’ll be asked whether he accepts responsibility for water-boarding and detainees being paraded naked on dog leads etc, all the horrors of what were quaintly termed “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
Duration : 0:6:56
Sen. Graham (R-SC) delivers a thoughtful and principled defense of the Geneva Conventions.
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George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley discusses the legal implications of President Bush’s proposed changes to Article III of the Geneva Conventions on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bushs onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.
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Does the Geneva Convention apply to the prisoners at Guantanomo Bay? Dean Lawrence R Velvel interviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charlie Savage about his new book, Take Over — The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American Democracy, on this episode of The Massachusetts School of Laws Books of our Times.
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Duration : 0:2:23
Torture or not – you decide