Comments on: Filtering out Contrarians in Vietnam http://timothyblee.com/2010/02/24/filtering-out-contrarians-in-vietnam/ A Blog by Timothy B. Lee Sat, 19 May 2012 01:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rhayader http://timothyblee.com/2010/02/24/filtering-out-contrarians-in-vietnam/comment-page-1/#comment-11453 Rhayader Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:22:01 +0000 http://timothyblee.com/?p=2472#comment-11453 Oh yeah, believe me slack is the last thing I want to give Yoo. Just as with Harkin, his behavior is inexcusable -- but is as much a product of his organization's structure as his own personal failings. Oh yeah, believe me slack is the last thing I want to give Yoo. Just as with Harkin, his behavior is inexcusable — but is as much a product of his organization’s structure as his own personal failings.

]]> By: Timothy B Lee http://timothyblee.com/2010/02/24/filtering-out-contrarians-in-vietnam/comment-page-1/#comment-11452 Timothy B Lee Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:16:53 +0000 http://timothyblee.com/?p=2472#comment-11452 There are definite parallels, although I'm not sure we should cut Yoo too much slack. Remember that he wasn't a career military guy. After his stint in the Bush administration he went back to his cushy gig as a tenured professor at Berkeley. So resigning in protest wouldn't have harmed his law-professor career in any meaningful sense. Still, it's probable that there were lawyers who raised alarms about what Yoo was proposing, and that these protests never made it to the top decision-makers. There are definite parallels, although I’m not sure we should cut Yoo too much slack. Remember that he wasn’t a career military guy. After his stint in the Bush administration he went back to his cushy gig as a tenured professor at Berkeley. So resigning in protest wouldn’t have harmed his law-professor career in any meaningful sense.

Still, it’s probable that there were lawyers who raised alarms about what Yoo was proposing, and that these protests never made it to the top decision-makers.

]]> By: Rhayader http://timothyblee.com/2010/02/24/filtering-out-contrarians-in-vietnam/comment-page-1/#comment-11450 Rhayader Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:46 +0000 http://timothyblee.com/?p=2472#comment-11450 This is a really interesting series of posts. It's hard to avoid drawing parallels to more recent situations -- John Yoo, for example, clearly was faced with much of the same censored input and pressure from above to produce a desired result. This is a really interesting series of posts. It’s hard to avoid drawing parallels to more recent situations — John Yoo, for example, clearly was faced with much of the same censored input and pressure from above to produce a desired result.

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