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Posted at 5:11pm on Apr. 15, 2008 On Taking Things A Bit Too Far

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This is going to be rather inside-baseballish but James Ho, the future Solicitor General of Texas, is under attack because he wrote a memo along with John Yoo, stating that unlawful enemy combatants are owed neither the status of POWs nor the status of criminal defendants. This has attracted some criticism, with Charles Kuffner writing that "One could very reasonably argue that an administration that had already shown a willingness to embrace torture would clearly not take the measured path, and thus any assistance given to them on the issue, no matter how defensible on its own merits, is at best questionable."

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