Nice collar of Harold Hongju Koh, mortal enemy of all that was Bushian, dear defender of all of Obama's Bushisms.
If I recall correctly, some wanted to bring up on charges those who rendered legal opinions to Bush re: Bush war policies. Can Koh be brought up on Obama-related war crimes charges?
The Obama administration has failed to close the military courts at Guantánamo, where it has tried and convicted a child soldier of newly invented ‘war crimes’; it has perpetuated indefinite detention and launched a legal assault on WikiLeaks. Perhaps most significantly, it has radically intensified drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. (Throughout the campaign trail John McCain condemned the expansion of the Afghan War into Pakistan as reckless and foolhardy.) Koh has dutifully produced legal rationales for the drone strikes, supplying the necessary law component to a national security ‘strategy’ of open-ended global counter-insurgency. None of this has provoked much criticism beyond the marginal antiwar left and libertarian right, and Koh’s justifications have been largely ignored by pundits once outraged by similar Bush-Cheney edicts.Once his man was elected, Koh missed an opportunity (in the words of Jacques Chirac) to keep quiet.
