tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post8704531085601206623..comments2023-04-05T08:04:07.514-04:00Comments on Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2011.03.52Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-6199829103124725612011-03-22T14:01:28.552-04:002011-03-22T14:01:28.552-04:00According to other legal scholars, Goldsmith resci...According to other legal scholars, Goldsmith rescinded only part of the so-called "torture memoranda," leaving in place justifications for waterboarding, for instance. Michael Scharf quotes Goldsmith as saying: "I wasn't as confident that the CIA techniques [including waterboarding] could be approved under a proper legal analysis. I didn't affirmatively believe that they were illegal either."<br /><br />See Michael Scharf's "The Torture Lawyers," in the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 20.3 (2010): 403-404, and David Cole's "The Sacrificial Yoo: Accounting for Torture in the OPR Report"<br /><br />http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/477/Bruce Krajewskihttp://brucekrajewski.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-86146123491779808452011-03-20T13:51:53.892-04:002011-03-20T13:51:53.892-04:00Worth noting that the torture memoranda were resci...Worth noting that the torture memoranda were rescinded in 2003, soon after their promulgation, by Jack Goldsmith the head of Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos.Bruce Friernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588247216777605704.post-16478974175583538752011-03-18T10:23:52.015-04:002011-03-18T10:23:52.015-04:00I guess I feel that it's unprofessional for th...I guess I feel that it's unprofessional for the reviewer and tiresome for the reader for a review to be prefaced with a lot of speculation about the author's relationship to Straussians. Who cares? What matters is the methodology that the book actually employs. What kind of readings does it suggest? How successful are they? I wish reviews would focus on objectively evaluating the text in this way rather than starting off by trying to stir up vague suspicions based on who the author's dissertation advisor was. Give her a break! <br /><br />At any rate, the reviewer seems to know nothing about Leo Strauss, who did publish "more than one book about Plato" but in fact died in October of 1973. (He taught courses on the Gorgias at Chicago in 1957 and 1963.)Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571437828496107684noreply@blogger.com