No surprise here, except that he still thinks he can get away with accusing legislators doing their oversight job of weakening the war effort.
Let me be sure I have this straight: we’re not torturing anyone, but revealing our legal position on what we can and can’t do would weaken the fight against terror?
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
UCLA Homepage
Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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Once More, With Feeling
Memorize and repeat: June 8 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, warned that he might be risking a contempt citation from Congress, told lawmakers he won't release or discuss memoranda that news reports say offered justification for tort…
Ashcroft's non-denial of torture
Despite the way [Ashcroft's] statement has been portrayed in the news, it is not denying official sanction of torture.