Law as a Guide Rather than an Obstacle in National Security
By Joe Campbell
December 16th, 2008
Philip Bobbitt in the New York Times:
Preventing any attacks on the United States since 9/11 is something for which the Bush administration must be given credit, but credit must also go to the American public, which decisively rejected offshore penal colonies, spurious rationalizations for warfare, secret torture chambers and contempt for the constitutional and international laws that would forbid such practices. Indeed, by selecting a former law professor as its new president, the country has thoroughly dismissed the notion that law is an obstacle rather than a guide to achieving security.
Tags: New York Times, Philip Bobbitt, Rule of Law, Terror and Consent