Two excellent posts on our government’s policy of enhanced interrogation techniques torture. First, Marty Lederman at Balkinization here, outlining our government’s tortured explanation as to its supposed legality. Second, Digby on enhanced interrogation techniques torture proponents’ inability to separate Hollywood from reality here.
UPDATE: More on torture & 24 at Opinio Juris.
Legal Advisor to the Secretary of State John Bellinger is guest-blogging at Opinio Juris. Opinio Juris also has invited “guest-respondents” to Bellinger’s posts – heavy hitters them all. So far, much of the conversation centers around the interpretation and impact of Hamdan and Common Article 3 (CA3) of the Geneva Convention.
Incidentally, one of Opinio Juris‘s main contributors is Mizzou Law professor Margaret McGuinnes.