Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Right guy for job?

Obama administration's acting U.S. solicitor general since Elena Kagan was nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court is Neal Katyal, who served as the legal counsel for the man who worked as Osama bin Laden’s driver 1996 through 2001.

Is Neal holding Constitution?
The case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who underwent training at an al Qaeda camp, was charged with transporting weapons to al Qaeda operatives and culminated in the 2006 Supreme Court ruling that said the Bush administration’s military tribunals violated U.S. law and international conventions.

Katyal argued that the war on terrorism is not really a war - in any sense of the term against any nation state or indeed against any well defined enemy.

Leave it to your intelligence - is the enemy well defined or not. Those who point RPGs or AK-47s at our troops are not well defined? Maybe it depends on what the definition of 'is' is. At least that is what I learned from Clinton's defence in the Lewinsky case. Poor Bill. He cannot practice law. His license was removed. I wonder if Katyal and Clinton went to the same Law school.

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