On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen Trott, speaking on > September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth Club. Trott credits the torture > warrant idea to Alan Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a > "great civil libertarian".
Yes. Clearly it's okay for torture warrants to exist -- as long as you're a member of the political class that gets to approve them... See also: Alan Dershowitz suggests judges could issue "torture warrants" http://www.politechbot.com/p-02759.html -Declan
