"Obama taps Yale Law dean as State Department legal adviser" by Bloomberg | March 24, 2009
NEW YORK - Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, a longtime critic of the Bush administration's antiterror policies, was nominated yesterday by President Obama to be the State Department's legal adviser....
Koh, who received his law degree from Harvard, has been dean at Yale since 2004 and served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor from 1998 to 2001, during the Clinton administration.
Since leaving government service, Koh has written articles critical of George W. Bush's administration's policies regarding the treatment of detainees and other legal issues. In an article published last year in the Washington Monthly, Koh wrote that he had been "sickened" by an August 2002 Justice Department opinion regarding the use of torture and called it a "disgrace" to the legal profession.
Sounds good, 'eh?
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Obama's Torture Trick and the MSM's Magic
In testimony last September to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Koh said the United States won "universal sympathy" as the victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The CUI BONO question regarding that INSIDE JOB!
"Tragically," he said, the Bush administration "chose to respond with a series of unnecessary, self-inflicted wounds, which have gravely diminished our global standing and damaged our reputation for respecting the rule of law."
"Obama moves to fill 3 top Treasury posts" by Reuters | March 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama moved to fill three of the four most senior Treasury Department positions yesterday, including disclosing his intent to nominate former department counsel Neal Wolin as deputy Treasury secretary.
Obama also named Lael Brainard, a Brookings economist, as undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs and said he had decided to keep Stuart Levey as undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
Wolin and Brainard must be confirmed by the Senate. Levey was confirmed in his post in 2004 and being asked to remain does not require reconfirmation.
Wolin served as general counsel at the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as deputy general counsel from 1995 to 1999. He briefly served in the Obama White House as deputy counsel to the president for economic policy and deputy assistant to the president before being asked to rejoin Treasury.
Brainard is vice president and founding director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.--more--"
Neo-libs, neo-cons, there really is no difference.
