MERIP
Media Resource List, January 7, 2005
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
on the following topic:
- Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales and the “torture
memos”
LISA
HAJJAR
Lisa Hajjar teaches in
the Law and Society Program at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. She is the author of Courting Conflict:
The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza
(2005). Hajjar chairs the editorial committee of Middle
East Report. She said today: “The ‘torture memos,' about
which nominee Gonzales was grilled yesterday, and the crises
they have sparked, are an inevitable outcome of the domination
of legal positions throughout the Bush administration by extreme
right-wing Federalist Society members, including Gonzales,
John Ashcroft, and Jay Bybee. Their thinking -- evident in
the memos and the policies derived from them -- is extremely
hostile to international law, judicial oversight and public
accountability. Gonzales' nomination is part of a much larger
trend of problematic nominations including William J. Haynes,
former Pentagon legal council, who has been nominated to a
federal judgeship.”
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