The constitution isn’t just for the good times. It is designed for even the tough times, times the country is tested. It is built to last. It provided plenty of security as we fought the Soviet Union, the Nazis and just about every other enemy you can imagine. But now we should fold it up because of a couple of guys hiding in a cave in Afghanistan? Cenk Uygur

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6.15.2006 Glenn Greenwald:

Specter falsely denied proposing amnesty for the Administration's illegal eavesdropping
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In sum, Specter's legislation amends the provision of FISA which provides for criminal penalties, and then, astonishingly, makes those revisions retroactive all the way back to 1978 (when FISA was enacted). The effect and almost certainly the intent of those revisions is to immunize the President and anyone acting under his authority from criminal liability for violating FISA -- just as the Post and the ACLU correctly reported, and just as Specter falsely denied.

6.15.2006 A Leap of Faith, Off a Cliff NYT Editorial

On Monday, the Bush administration told a judge in Detroit that the president's warrantless domestic spying is legal and constitutional, but refused to say why. The judge should just take his word for it, the lawyer said, because merely talking about it would endanger America. Today, Senator Arlen Specter wants his Judiciary Committee to take an even more outlandish leap of faith for an administration that has shown it does not deserve it.

Mr. Specter wants the committee to approve a bill he drafted that tinkers dangerously with the rules on wiretapping, even though the president has said the law doesn't apply to him anyway, and even though Mr. Specter and most of the panel are just as much in the dark as that judge in Detroit. The bill could well diminish the power of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, which was passed in 1978 to prevent just the sort of abuse that Mr. Bush's program represents.
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This is not a time to offer the administration a chance to steamroll Congress into endorsing its decision to ignore the 1978 intelligence act and shred constitutional principles on warrants and on the separation of powers. This is a time for Congress to finally hold Mr. Bush accountable for his extralegal behavior and stop it.

6.14.2006 Back in the day:

In his authoritative 1940 treatise on evidence, John Henry Wigmore concluded that the executive branch is entitled to protect state secrets but that in cases in which classified information is at issue, it is up to the judge to decide whether such evidence qualifies as legitimately secret, and thus legally privileged. A court that “abdicates its inherent function of determining the facts upon which the admissibility of evidence depends will furnish to bureaucratic officials too ample opportunities for abusing the privilege,” Wigmore warned. (Here)

6.14.2006 Now, What About Cheney? John Nichols, The Nation

As Hinchey has argued for months, Libby's testimony about the authorization he received from Bush and Cheney must be seen in the context of a mounting body of evidence that rules, regulations and laws were bent far beyond the breaking point by the administration. The fact that Karl Rove has not been indicted does not eliminate that body of evidence. Nor does it resolve questions about Cheney's involvement in the scandal, or about the motivations of the president, the vice president and others who sought to discredit Ambassador Wilson for telling the truth. And it ought not serve as an excuse for shutting down an inquiry that has yet to examine "the heart of the CIA leak case."

6.12.2006 Judiciary reminds Bush administration that it exists By Glenn Greenwald

The hearing this morning is to argue the plaintiffs' motion for an order compelling the administration to immediately cease its warrantless eavesdropping.
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Even once the court ruled that it would hear the plaintiffs' motion first, the administration continued to argue vigorously that the court is required to hear its "state secrets" motion first:
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The judge's refusal to adhere to that request seems to signal that the judge does not view the mere recitation of the words "state secrets" as a signal that her power to rule has been magically stripped away without any analysis as to the validity of that claim. It may be a small rumbling indicating that the judiciary -- like a handful of members of Congress -- are beginning to find the courage to assert their institutional role in our government.
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Judges almost always defer to the "state secrets" claim. But perhaps some courts will start to recognize that the doctrine here -- like so much else in our political life - is being radically exploited by an administration which virtually never cares about national security but acts to protect only its political interests:

6.12.2006 By Hume's Ghost

In related news, Nat Hentoff, who is probably more aware of the threat that the Bush administration poses to civic liberty than any other journalist, writes in his latest Liberty Beat column about the "states secrets" privilege, the "Bush administration's favorite means of staying in the shadows of the parallel legal system it keeps on inventing."

If it were not for reporting like that of the Washington Post (and of reporters like Charlie Savage) we would not even know about this parallel legal system in the first place. But does not the American public have a right to know if its government has decided to choose for itself a different sytem of government that the one chosen by the people, the one enshrined in the Constitution?

6.12.2006 After my Senator, Carl Levin, voted to confirm General Hayden as head of the CIA, I wrote to him asking "How could you have voted for Hayden?" I just received a long, intelligent and persuasive reply. Also, he referred me to "Senator Carl Levin Floor Statement on General Michael Hayden's Nomination to be Director of the CIA". It is well worth a read.

6.12.2006 Some of All Fears By PAUL KRUGMAN

The Some take anti-American positions on a variety of issues. For example, they want to hurt the economy: "Some say, well, maybe the recession should have been deeper," said President Bush in 2003. "That bothers me when people say that."

Mainly, however, the Some are weak on national security. "There's Some in America who say, 'Well, this can't be true there are still people willing to attack,' " said Mr. Bush during a visit to the National Security Agency.
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Some might also suggest that Democrats who accuse other Democrats of closet pacifism are motivated in part by careerism that they're trying to sustain the peculiar rule, which still prevails in Washington, that you have to have been wrong about Iraq to be considered credible on national security. And they're doing this by misrepresenting the views and motives of those who had the good sense and courage to oppose this war.

But that's just what Some Democrats might say. And everyone knows that Some Democrats hate America.

6.12.2006 NYT's Herbert: Kerry 'almost certainly' won Ohio in 2004 Raw Storey

6.12.2006 What!!?

"Although the government never filed a formal answer to the ACLU complaint, it asked Taylor in late May to dismiss the ACLU suit, invoking a military and state secrets privilege. It says the ACLU can't proceed unless the government divulges information that would compromise national security."

6.12.2006 Synopsis of the El-Masri case:

Last month, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va., dismissed a lawsuit filed by a German citizen who alleged he was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA.

Khaled El-Masri sued former CIA Director George J. Tenet, other officials and three private companies. The suit alleged that Tenet violated U.S. and international human rights laws by permitting agents to kidnap El-Masri in Macedonia in 2003, beat him, drug him and transport him to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan.

Five months later, according to the suit, El-Masri was released at night in Albania without being charged with a crime.

Ellis said that "if El-Masri's allegations are true or essentially true, then all fair-minded people, including those who believe that state secrets must be protected … must also agree that El-Masri has suffered injuries as a result of our country's mistake and deserves a remedy."

Nonetheless, Ellis sided with government attorneys, saying that if the case went forward it "would present a grave risk of injury to national security."

"El-Masri's private interests must give way to the national interest," he ruled.

"In times of war," he said, "our country, chiefly through the executive branch, must often take exceptional steps to thwart the enemy."

6.9.2006 "Denver: Where the Streets are Paved with Radium" By Aaron

When the disposition of radioactive waste hinges on a governmental organization not wanting to cause an "undue economic blow" to a particular waste management company, I begin to wonder if there is something more going on.

6.11.2006 Moral majority take on GSK and Merck over cancer drugs By Danny Fortson, Independent, UK

Conservative groups, including the influential Family Research Council (FRC), have voiced concerns that immunising young girls against the virus that most regularly causes cervical cancer, Human Papilloma- virus, may lead to sexual promiscuity

6.10.2006 No, Republicans communicate to, liberals communicate with: "As became clear from the rather large and diverse crowd here, the blogosphere has become for the left what talk radio has been for the right: a way of organizing and communicating to supporters." (Here)

6.9.2006 Paul Krugman on The Paris Hilton tax:

So there you have it. Some people might wonder whether it makes sense to balk at spending a few hundred million dollars that's million with an "m" to secure our ports against a possible terrorist attack, while sacrificing several hundred billion dollars that's billion with a "b" in federal revenue to give wealthy heirs a tax break. But nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

6.8.2006 " HALF-NAKED BREASTS ON TV: APPARENTLY WORSE THAN CARBON MONOXIDE IN COAL MINES"

6.8.2006 As predicted: "Specter said Cheney's action prompted him delay plans to subpoena the executives to testify about what role their companies may have played in the spy program."

6.8.2006 63 illegal immigrants rounded up BY TAMARA AUDI, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

They called it Operation Motor City, and for five days, federal agents working late-night shifts in unmarked cars shadowed illegal immigrants living in towns and cities across southeast Michigan.

By Wednesday, 63 immigrants -- most of them from Eastern European countries and ranging in age from 10 to 60 -- were in the process of being deported in one of the largest roundups yet in an ongoing effort to clear Michigan and Ohio of an estimated 4,500 illegal immigrants.
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"I have no problem with them picking up people who are here unlawfully and all their appeals have been exhausted," said David Wenger, a Detroit immigration attorney who has clients who were picked up in earlier roundups. "The problem is there's no discretion anymore. It looks like they are just trying to get numbers for statistics to report back to Washington."

6.8.2006 In Proposed Iran Deal, Bush Might Have To Waive Law By Charlie Savage

In August 2005, Congress passed a law forbidding the United States from exporting any nuclear materials or equipment to countries the State Department says sponsor terrorism -- a list that includes Iran. The law allows Bush to waive the ban if he certifies to Congress that the technology transfer would not increase the risk that Iran will acquire ``nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, or any materials or components of nuclear weapons."
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Bush may not believe he is bound to obey the law, however. When he signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law on Aug. 8, 2005, he issued a ``signing statement” in which he asserted that he has the authority to ignore several dozen of the newly-created statutes because they conflict with his interpretation of the Constitution.
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Richard Epstein, a prominent conservative and a law professor at the University of Chicago, said yesterday that the ban on exporting nuclear technology appears to fall well within Congress's authority.

``It may be that Bush is right on the [policy merits of] the deal . . . but what I really don't understand is how he thinks he can ignore statutes," Epstein said.

6.8.2006 Go Carl!

... this week, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., proposed a bill that would make the administration provide “a full accounting on any clandestine prison or detention facility currently or formerly operated by the United States Government, regardless of location, where detainees in the global war on terrorism are or were being held,” the number of detainees, and a “description of the interrogation procedures used or formerly used on detainees at such prison or facility and a determination, in coordination with other appropriate officials, on whether such procedures are or were in compliance with United States obligations under the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture.” The administration vigorously opposes the bill.

Note: I can't verify this by reading Sen. Levin's site or searching Google News.

6.7.2006 This is how things should be done. The General's Inner Frenchman issues an APB

6.7.2006 Senator slams Cheney for lobbying Congress on wiretaps

6.7.2006 The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed By CRAIG UNGER, Vanity Fair

The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House.

6.7.2006 San Franciscophobia From Salon, By Garrison Keillor

Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous. Creativity is a key to economic progress. Authoritarianism is stifling. I don’t believe that Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard were gay, but what’s important is: In San Francisco, it doesn’t matter so much. When the cultural Sturmbannfuhrers try to marshal everyone into straight lines, it has consequences for the economic future of this country.
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You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war and getting nowhere, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid.

6.7.2006 The Nation, John Nichols

In states across the country Tuesday, primary elections named candidates for Congress, governorships and other important offices. But the most interesting, and perhaps significant, election did not involve an individual. Rather, it was about an idea.

In Northern California’s Humboldt County, voters decided by a 55-45 margin that corporations do not have the same rights—based on the supposed “personhood” of the combines—as citizens when it comes to participating in local political campaigns.
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"Every person has the right to sign petition recalls and to contribute money to political campaigns. Measure T will not affect these individual rights," explained Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a resident of Eureka who was one of the leaders of the Yes on T campaign. "But individuals hold these political rights by virtue of their status as humans in a democracy and, simply put, a corporation is not a person."

Amen!

6.7.2006 Katrina's Unlearned Lessons -- A government agency admits error, and Congress wants to reward it.

6.7.2006 NY Times Editorial

But there is one clear way that Ohio's election system is corrupt. Decisions about who can vote are being made by a candidate for governor. Mr. Blackwell should hand over responsibility for elections to a decision maker whose only loyalty is to the voters and the law.

6.7.2006 Seven European States Aided Illegal CIA Flights (Update2)

June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Seven European states cooperated with illegal air transfers of terrorist suspects by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Council of Europe said in a report today.Authorities in the U.K., Italy, Germany, Sweden, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey could be held responsible for violation of prisoners' rights to ``varying degrees,'' the council said in a press release. Several other countries colluded ``actively or passively,'' the release said.

6.6.2006 "Haditha, Bush & Nuremberg's Law" By Peter Dyer

6.6.2006 Estate Tax Pyramid Scheme

Robert B. Reich Those who argue for repeal say the estate tax discourages entrepreneurs. What? Passing on $4 million tax free to your kids is not enough incentive?

Talk about discouraging entrepreneurship. Repeal the estate tax and within a few decades control over America’s productive assets will be in the hands of non-productive Americans who never lifted a finger in their lives except to speed-dial their financial advisors.

6.6.2006 Sacred Ecology and Capitalism By Charles Sullivan

Combined with a human population explosion, the growth of highly industrialized cultures driven by capitalism’s ceaseless quest for raw materials, new markets, cheap labor and higher profits, we are witnessing the systematic and wanton destruction of the biosphere in exchange for capital.

6.4.2006 Justice Department's Black Site The administration censors internal probe of lawbreaking by the Oval Office and the NSA by Nat Hentoff

On May 11, Republican Arlen Specter, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is no stranger to operating in the shadows: "I cannot understand why the Department has denied the clearances necessary for this . . . internal oversight." And he asked Gonzales to "forward all memoranda, documents or notes" concerning that decision.

And Senator Patrick Leahy, ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also wrote to Gonzales: "You and the President have often alluded to the Executive Branch monitoring itself. This is a clear indication of how inadequate such internal monitoring is. I join Chairman Specter's request for a full explanation of these actions. As an immediate matter you should reverse this effort to stonewall, and proceed to provide the clearances and access to information that is needed for OPR to conduct a thorough investigation into these matters."

Since the attorney general has to ask the boss in the Oval Office whether to accede to these senators' requests, maybe the president's press secretary, Tony Snow, will let us know when the president will allow his own Justice Department's investigators to tell the senators—and us—who told him and General Michael Hayden that they are above the law.

6.4.2006. Bar group will review Bush's legal challenges By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff

The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.

Per Laura at War and Piece: On board the task force, former FBI director William Sessions, former Reagan administration Justice Department official Bruce Fein, and former Oklahoma Republican congressman Mickey Edwards.

6.6.6 Creating the Inevitable -- The CIA visits Iraq in April 2002 By Ken Silverstein, Harpers

6.6.6 The Criminalization of the Public Square By Worldcantwait

... The result of this relentless demonization of the anti-war movement, the criminalization of the public square and the endless attempts by the Democrats to appease that mythical swing voter in the Midwest is a party controlled, not by their most skillful and aggressive members like Russ Feingold or Murtha but by an elite of pollsters, consultants, timid professionals whose main interest lies not in acting like an opposition party or in governing but in keeping their jobs. It's led to a civic culture so degraded that the American people can sit by as their civil liberties are stripped away and their country is dishonored by the spectacle of innocent civilians being massacred in Iraq with no response in the streets of New York or Washington. It's led to the amazing spectacle of a president getting everything he wants, even as his poll numbers continue to decline. And afraid of genuine mass protest and resistance we sit in front of our computers in fear and loneliness pouring out our rage into the faux public square of the Internet waiting for the next savior from the Democratic party. .

6.3.2006 "The United States is supposed to be a country that values individuals for their inherent worth, not for their inherited worth."

6.3.2006 Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule -- The Pentagon's move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition." By Julian E. Barnes, LA Times Staff Writer (Here)

6.3.2006 Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)

So this is a gradual process. I mean censuring a president is a big deal. And you don't do it in minutes. But what I'm finding is that by quietly pointing out to people that if we just leave a blank hole on the pages of history concerning this presidential power grab, that will really be a shame on us as Democrats and as Americans that we didn't stand up to this.

6.3.2006 "It's ironic that one of the last nails in the coffin of the Bush presidency might be his loss of his conservative base because he's sticking with a strategy of outreach to first- and second-generation Americans, possibly at the behest of Rove; that's one of the few non-reprehensible strategic choices these guys have made, and it's killing them.)" No More Mister Nice Blog

6.3.2006 "Invoking Secrets Privilege Becomes a More Popular Legal Tactic by U.S" By SCOTT SHANE

6.3.2006 Judge Bars Tax-Funded Religious Jail Project By Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Staff Writer

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Charles Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries and the state of Iowa violated the Constitution by setting up a government-funded program to rehabilitate prison inmates by immersing them in Christianity.

The judge ordered Iowa's Department of Corrections to disband the religious program within 60 days, and he directed Prison Fellowship Ministries to pay back at least $1.5 million that it has received from the state since the program began in 1999. But he also stayed both rulings pending the outcome of an expected appeal.

Marty Lederman adds:

"In ordering this remedy, the court appears to have been strongly influenced by the fact that the constitutional questions here were not difficult ones, and that the defendants, "well-financed and sophisticated entities who know every contour of First Amendment law," had "retained experienced, knowledgeable legal counsel that should have been aware of the constitutional risks associated with state funding of InnerChange."

6.3.2006 "The Doctor Wasn't Cruel Enough" By Maia Szalavitz

How one physician escaped the panic over prescription drugs

6.2.2006 Laura Bush asks for more understanding about AIDS virus

First lady Laura Bush told a major AIDS conference Friday that more people must understand how the deadly virus is transmitted, and she called on countries to improve literacy so their citizens can make better choices.

In a short speech to the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, Bush warned that no country can ignore the AIDS crisis, which has killed some 25 million people in the 25 years since it was first detected and now infects 40 million people.

She said education is "spreading hope" and that the "ABC" model — abstain, be faithful and use condoms — has led to sharp declines in HIV infections. But people still do not properly understand the disease, she said.

But see also: US Blocking International Deal on Fighting Aids

The Bush administration, heavily influence by the Christian right, is blocking key proposals for a new United Nations package to combat Aids worldwide over the next five years because of its opposition to the distribution of condoms and needle exchanges and references to prostitutes, drug addicts and homosexuals.

The United States is being supported by many Muslim countries, including Egypt, and various conservative African and Latin American nations. “There are a lot of unholy alliances all over the place,” said a European official attending UN talks in New York last night.

6.2.2006 "Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever"

6.2.2006 Detroit: Federal judge allows lawsuit against NSA

The government filed a motion saying that no court can consider the issues because of a privilege against revealing state secrets, if doing so harms national security. The judge (Anna Diggs Taylor) said she will hear the government's motion only after proceeding with a June 12 hearing on the plaintiffs' motion to summarily declare the spying illegal.

"Although defendants have not responded to said motion they may, if they appear, argue against it," she said.

An amicus brief has been filed by The Washington Legal Foundation to help the executive branch out. Anonymous Liberal says:

The brief cites exactly zero cases, however, that stand for the proposition that the president alone has the power to set rules for intelligence gathering, particularly intelligence gathering involving the targeting of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. There's a reason for that. There are no such cases. Setting such rules falls within any number of powers provided to Congress under article I, including the power to make rules governing the armed forces.

6.2.2006 Hume's Ghost:

Senator Frist declares that "marriage is under attack." What is under attack is the notion that the purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect each citizen's opportunity to pursue happiness as he/she sees fit to do so without state interferance.

6.2.2006 U.S. Wants Companies to Keep Web Usage Records By SAUL HANSELL and ERIC LICHTBLAU

6.2.2006 Justice Dept. Official to Be Questioned in Tobacco Case

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Associate Attorney General Robert D. McCallum Jr. must undergo questioning in a lawsuit by a nonprofit group seeking records about the Justice Department's conduct in a landmark case against the tobacco industry.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued last year after the department ignored the testimony of one of its own witnesses in the tobacco trial and reduced the amount the Bush administration is seeking from the tobacco industry from $130 billion to $10 billion.

6.2.2006 Was the 2004 Election Stolen? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

6.1.2006 "Judge Orders Ashcroft, DOJ to Come Clean on Attorney-Client Surveillance", By Shayana Kadidal

Conclusion For all these reasons, the government’s motion for reconsideration is denied, and the government is directed to comply with the ruling I made during the conference held on March 7, 2006. More specifically, the government shall, within three weeks of the date of this order or, if an appeal is taken, within three weeks of any decision affirming this order:

(1) state whether any member of the trial team is aware of any monitoring or surveillance of communications between any of the plaintiffs and their attorneys in either of these related actions. The “trial team” includes all attorneys and support staff who are participating in the defense of this case, as well as any supervisors or other individuals who are providing guidance or advice or exercising decision-making authority in connection with the defense of the United States in these cases;

(2) state whether any individual who has been identified as a likely witness in either of these cases is aware of any monitoring or surveillance of communications between any of the plaintiffs and their attorneys in either of these related actions; and

(3) state whether any information obtained from monitoring or surveillance of communications between any of the plaintiffs and their attorneys in either of these related actions will be used in any way by the United States in its defense of these cases and, if so, identify the information that will be so used.

6.2.2006 Librarians Defy the FBI By Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story.

The FBI ordered four librarians to turn over patrons' library records and shut up about it. The librarians refused to do either.

6.1.2006 War is Swell By Sidney Blumenthal

In the beginning, the elements of the war paradigm appeared to be expediencies, conceived as a series of emergency measures in the struggle against al-Qaida. But, in fact, their precepts were developed in law review articles before Sept. 11 by John Yoo, promoted to deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, where Vice President Cheney's office assigned him to write key secret memos on torture, surveillance and executive power. Once Bush approved them, the clerisy of neoconservative lawyers, at least as tightly knit as Opus Dei, put them into effect. The war paradigm is Bush's "Da Vinci Code," the difference being that its high priests acknowledge in private that it is real.

6.1.2006 "Justice Dept. Is Criticized by Ex-Official on Subpoenas"By ADAM LIPTAK

Mr. Gonzales has defended his decision to issue the subpoenas. "I think it was information that was necessary, that we needed to have in connection with that investigation," he told the editorial board of The Houston Chronicle last month.

Mr. Corallo said he had used a different standard, one rooted in Justice Department policy.

"It has to be a matter of grave national security or impending physical harm to innocent people," he said, "not just, well, this is the only way we're going to be able to get this information."

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Glenn Greenwald

• True Blue Liberal
• Baghdad Burning
• Billmon
• Carpetbagger
• Christian Coalition Ratings
• Steven C. Clemons
• Digby
• Drudge
• Gen. JC Christian, patriot
• The Huffington Post
• Headingleft, Sander and Aaron
• Memeorandum
• No More Mister Nice Blog
• Ed Perlmutter's Home Page
• PROFESSOR POLLKATZ's POOL OF POLLS
• Publius
• Talking Points Memo

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Documents The Library of Congress -- Legislative information, pending bills, etc.

Transcript of Powell's U.N. presentation

The Scalito, Mafia PDF

Alphabet Soup

The Project for the New American Century's Statement of Principles, and its pre-2000 writings about Iraq.

The U.S. Constitution
See also

Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau

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