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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Feb. 2, 2008

Law on Terror

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - Jack Goldsmith's "The Terror Presidency" chronicles the role of the little-known Office of Legal Counsel in the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

FORUM COLUMN

By Hirbod Rashidi
This article appears on Page 6.

      A few days after Sept. 11, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert and informed the public that the rules had changed, that we had to work on "'the dark side.' ... We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. ... [I]f we are going to be successful, ... it's going to be vital for us to use any means at o...

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