John Yoo, the attorney who was allegedly hand-picked by the Bush administration to be read into the President’s Surveillance Program so that he would give them paper providing legal justification, has responded to last week’s report by inspector generals on the program and his role in it. In an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street…
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Warrantless wiretaps just the tip
… The OIG report is ultimately one chapter in the larger story of how, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, both the executive and the legislative branches of government were willing to turn a blind eye to whatever they thought had to be done to stop further attacks. This attitude, which was shared…
Bloggers react to the PSP report
I’ve been reading a number of mainstream news sources and columnists on the report that was released yesterday about the President’s Surveillance Program. It’s interesting to see what others feel the headline should be or the take-home message should be. Glenn Greenwald highlights one aspect of the report that I didn’t mention in my commentary…