Eugene Fidell Quotes (9 Quotes)

I think given the personnel turbulence on the Supreme Court right now, as well as the less-than-clear road map the court gave us in 2004, it's a whole new ballgame.

It is a fact that having a request for a witness can be a form of leverage it gives you something that you can negotiate with the other side about. If you don't ask, you're never going to have any leverage.

I can't recall a four-star general ever being called on as a witness.

I think many people have come to conclude that the Supreme Court did nobody any favors by failing to move the ball further down the field.

The administration has shown itself a number of times capable of changing course and speed in response to actual or feared legal developments, be it in the courts or in Congress. This may be another illustration of that tendency.

There's this sense that time has no value. I think the government has to explain what its game plan is. The legal system is illusory for people in his position.

It's to have an exhaustive look at the matter, not only from the standpoint of potentially assigning responsibility but finding out what happened and making recommendations of a systemic nature so that it doesn't happen again.

I think people around the world are going to be scratching their heads at that sentence. The conduct of which this soldier was convicted is highly offensive, and if this is all one gets it's not impunity, but it's getting real close.

How do you get there from here They haven't persuaded me that this is valid, ... You have to have a disruption of civil authority before the military can perform activities such as surveillance.