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DOJ Murder Justification">Shorter DOJ Murder Justification

| February 5, 2013

If a high-level fed­eral bureau­crat wants you dead, you are dead. That is all you really need to need know of the Depart­ment of Justice’s white paper on extra­ju­di­cial killing. Because once the exec­u­tive branch claims author­ity to choose—secretly, uni­ram­er­ally* and with­out review—whom to kill and where, it doesn’t mat­ter what legal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion it claims gives […]

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Teri Buhl Followup: “Libel…no wait, copyright!” (updated with two more theories)

| February 5, 2013

When Tim Cush­ing at TechDirt wrote about Teri Buhl’s “unpub­lish­able tweets” and her attempts to bully Gideon with law­suit threats, then me with veiled threats of a libel law­suit, Buhl left a com­ment: (“Jurno”?) Then she asked Jim Rome­nesko to post her response to the TechDirt arti­cle: I can say silly things some times and I’d […]

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