He also doesn't believe in, well, let's see: gun control, the death penalty, the C.I.A., the Civil Rights Act, prosecuting flag-burners, hate crime legislation, foreign aid, the military draft under any circumstances, campaign finance reform, the war on drugs, the war on terror and the war on porn.
Although Smith recommended that the government investigate ways in which prostitution law in Canada might be altered to emulate Sweden's Sex Purchase Act, thereby prosecuting those who purchase sexual acts and not those who perform them, the NAP-CHT does not make any such legislative recommendations.
"The act of prosecuting the high-value detainees will be the accountability process," Sifton said.
The appeals court found that prosecutors were permitted to use wiretaps obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in prosecuting people accused of being terrorists.
The revelations, and ensuing coverage, shed more light on the Obama administration's aggressive and unprecedented use of the Espionage Act in prosecuting current and former government officials for leaking to journalists.
The only thing remaining is the political will and courage to act by prosecuting Hamid Karzai for his abuse of power and high crimes against the state before he controls every last thing.
These include unprecedented use of the Espionage Act in prosecuting media leaks, classifying government documents as secret when no harm could come from their release, increased government surveillance that jeopardizes the safety of news sources, Freedom of Information Act violations, and White House-producontentthat that can't substitute for independent, accountability journalism.
"That act is a difficult act to prosecute people under, especially someone who might be considered a journalist, as he would argue he is," said Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law.
Under Mr. Breuer, the division has also increasingly used a 1977 law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, to prosecute corporate bribery.
In 1913, the government hid behind the Mann Act to prosecute a powerful, prominent black man it felt needed to be taught a lesson.
Mr. Horton, the Columbia lecturer, said he believed that "a sound basis" existed for using the act to prosecute security contractors.
