War Crimes

Via Jim Henley, Tom Englehart points out that the vast reams of quasi-legal reasoning the administration's produced designed to explain precisely which kinds of war crimes aren't really war crimes constitutes a kinda sorta confession, a weird paper trail of criminality and rationalization where a cover-up might have been smarter and less morbidly bizarre.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/10/war-crimes/43358/