Jack Goldsmith, who headed up the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel for a stormy number of months in 2003 and 2004, has written a tell-all of his time in the Department, which included clashes with the administration over warrantless surveillance, torture, and other weighty topics. Jeffrey Rosen’s sneak peek in The New York Times Magazine with Goldsmith is rife with revealing details.
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