Activists Continue to Challenge UST’s Law School Dean
They cite “specious and irrelevant” arguments and are “astonished at the illogic of (Mengler’s) defense” in keeping Torture Memo author Delahunty on the law school faculty in light of UST’s mission statement.
Bob Heberle, Evergreene Digest
Evergreene Digest Editor's Note: Bob Heberle makes this correction in his story:
According to all of the reports, Delahunty was not a coauthor of "the Torture Memos" because he was not with the Justice Department and John
Yoo when the official "Torture Memos" were written. What he coauthored were the memos that declared civilian combatents were not entitled to
the protection of the Geneva Conventions. That, some argue, opened up the later findings that certain kinds of "enhanced interrogation
techniques"/ torture, were allowed. Those are the memos of James Bybee and others that actually specified what torture measures were
possible.
Bob Heberle's reply back to St. Thomas University:
Dear Dean Mengler,
Thank you for your June 22, 2009 studied response to a copy of the article that I had sent to the Star Tribune. My letter was sent in response to a Bill Moyers Journal PBS program on May 29, 2009. I regret that you apparently missed the point of my letter to the editor. I commented on the apparent failure of St. Thomas Law School to fulfill its Mission Statement: The University of St. Thomas School of Law, as a Catholic law school, is dedicated to integrating faith and reason in the search for truth through a focus on morality and social justice.
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Related:
In Letter to UST, Alum Raises Contradiction Between UST Law School's Mission and Hiring of Robert Delahunty, Robert Heberle, Evergreene Digest
Delahunty is a co-author of the "Torture Memo." UST replies.
