{"id":800,"date":"2009-04-29T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2009-04-29T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:55:42","slug":"the-torture-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/04\/29\/the-torture-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard that the Obama administration was considering whether to prosecute lawyers who crafted the &#8220;torture memos,&#8221; I was very concerned.&nbsp; It sounded like a witch hunt, and worse, like an impingement on the sacrosanct freedom of legal counsel to render advice.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/balkin.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/we-must-not-use-olc-lawyers-as.html\">This piece by Brian Tamanaha<\/a>, however, powerfully explains why my concern was to a large extent misplaced.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/new.stjohns.edu\/academics\/graduate\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/Tamanaha\">Tamanaha<\/a>, by the way, is no wishy-washy liberal.&nbsp; His book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Means-End-Threat-Context\/dp\/0521689678\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1241027338&amp;sr=8-1\">Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law<\/a> is an important argument for the recognition of normative-moral principles for legal theory, which every Christian interested in legal theory should read.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard that the Obama administration was considering whether to prosecute lawyers who crafted the &#8220;torture memos,&#8221; I was very concerned.&nbsp; It sounded like a witch hunt, and worse, like an impingement on the sacrosanct freedom of legal counsel to render advice.&nbsp; This piece by Brian Tamanaha, however, powerfully explains why my concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-law-and-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-cU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}