Gov. Cuomo Is Entitled to Due Process

by Alan M. Dershowitz • August 9, 2021 at 5:00 am

The report and its conclusions are based on a one-sided investigation that does not include cross examination or other truth-testing mechanisms that are essential to due process.
Cuomo has categorically denied all of these charges and, until the contrary is proved, he must be presumed innocent....
The third category is extremely dangerous to civil liberties and could seriously undercut the credibility of the report as a whole. It alleges that Cuomo "looked" at women in a creepy way, focusing on particular parts of their body and looking them up and down. This is neither a crime nor a tort, nor is it subject to proof or disproof. It is literally in the eye of the beholder and the beholden. It does not belong in a serious report about possible criminal and harassment behavior.
Its inclusion demonstrates potential bias by the investigators, the attorney general, and perhaps some of Cuomo's accusers.... The government should not be telling people who or what to look at...

The rule of law requires that New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo (pictured) be accorded the opportunity to challenge the serious allegations made against him in a report commissioned by the state's Attorney General. The report and its conclusions are based on a one-sided investigation that does not include cross examination or other truth-testing mechanisms that are essential to due process. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

The rule of law requires that Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) be accorded the opportunity to challenge the serious allegations made against him in a report commissioned by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The report and its conclusions are based on a one-sided investigation that does not include cross examination or other truth-testing mechanisms that are essential to due process.

The allegations in the report fall into three distinct, if somewhat overlapping, categories.

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US-Iranian Nuclear Talks Come Unglued

by Lawrence A. Franklin • August 9, 2021 at 4:00 am

One significant aspect of a newly invigorated JCPOA is whether the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) would be granted total access to known and suspected Iranian sites associated with the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Better not count on it.
Part of the problem may have been the new Iranian presidency, which began last week, of a Ebrahim Raisi, "the Butcher," apparently a destruction machine who reportedly murdered thousands of Iranians, some of whom were not even sentenced to death... Although it is Iran's Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who makes all final decisions, the US, to its credit, seems to have concluded that no deal just now would be better than "any" deal.
It now looks as of Iran may be happier with no agreement, and just sprint for unlimited nuclear capability without any Western strings attached. There also apparently exists, with good reason, insufficient trust on the Western side that the Islamic Republic would ever actually be in compliance.

Part of the problem with the Vienna-based talks on re-establishing the Iran "nuclear deal" may have been the new Iranian presidency, which began last week, of Ebrahim Raisi (pictured), "the Butcher," apparently a destruction machine who reportedly murdered thousands of Iranians, some of whom were not even sentenced to death. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

Negotiators at the Vienna-based talks on re-establishing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) have reportedly drafted an agreement and returned to their respective capitals, apparently in the hopes of securing an endorsement for the revived "nuclear deal" with Iran, which by the way Iran never signed. While some differences still remain, the P5+1 nations (the US, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) were trying to restore the JCPOA deal before the new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took office last week.

President Biden's negotiating team, to win the support of Iran's hardline dominated regime, had reportedly agreed to a substantial lifting of Trump administration-imposed sanctions on Iran.

The JCPOA, which was falsely touted as preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability, had in reality only postponed it a bit; and never addressed at all Iran's manufacture of ballistic missiles to deliver such nuclear weapons.

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