Berkeley Law promulgates discredited views of torture law...

"As I absorbed the [post 9/11 Office of Legal Counsel] opinions, I concluded that some were deeply flawed: sloppily reasoned, overbroad and incautious in asserting extraordinary constitutional authorities on behalf of the president....I was astonished, and immensely worried, to discover that some of our most important counterterrorism policies rested on severely damaged legal foundations."Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law professor and head of the OLC in 2003

with promotion of torture professor's latest book

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