Retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor... on the Bush administration's policies of detainment in a speech at West Point:
"What law governs the detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects?" the justice asked the future military officers. "And how are you to know what standards apply?" Playing off the West Point motto of "Duty, Honor, Country," she continued, according to the text made available by the court: "What does your duty demand? What does your honor demand? And what does your country demand? It is hard enough to answer the first two questions, but harder still when the nation's elected leaders are silent about the last." [NYTimes]
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