Posted on November 26, 2007, 9:46 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column | Next Big Picture Column Musharraf, Mukasey, and Checks and Balances Published in the Maryland Daily Record November 26, 2007 This month, the lawyers of Pakistan have been in the streets, and closer to home the Senate has agonized over the Michael Mukasey nomination for Attorney General. […]
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Posted on August 5, 2005, 11:36 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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But we had better be prepared for the consequences. Someone, somewhere, is going to try us, quite seriously, for war crimes. And somewhere else, someone is going to commit war crimes against our soldiers because we fail to recognize their own combatants as POWs. And it won’t be pretty.
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