THE LEGAL hullabaloo created by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz – his proposal for so-called “torture warrants” to help police convince suspected terrorists to confess details of pending plots against Americans – blew into New York City recently.
Former mayor Edward I. Koch, no stranger to hullabaloos himself, told an April 30 dean’s lunch gathering at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that he opposed any such judicial imprimatur. But he scoffed at civil libertarians who resort in kneejerk fashion to international law that deems torturers hostis humani generis – enemies of all humanity – and who would ignore the daily fact of police officers the world over engaging in time-stained methods of physical duress.
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