Archive for May, 2004

Boalt Controversy over Yoo Memo

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Some background first, then some analysis:
On Friday, May 21, 2004 many Boalt students received a message like this:
Dear fellow Boalt students and alums:
By now, many of you have heard about the role Boalt Professor John Yoo played as part of the Bush Administration to pave the way for the egregious violations of international law we [...]

Mastermind of Sept. 11 Attack?

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

This bizarre statement appears at whitehouse.gov:
We have captured almost two-thirds of the known Al-Qaida leaders, including the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
Who is this mastermind of the September 11 attacks that has already been captured? I thought the mastermind was Osama bin Laden, and that only conspiracy theorists believed he had already been captured [...]