That seems to be
the current opinion of the Justice Department, which is disavowing its earlier opinion from 2001 that the military could conduct search and seizure operations on U.S. soil without a warrant.
The 2001 opinion was written by Professor John "the Constitution Don't Mean Shit" Yoo, of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. He apparently doesn't want to testify. Attorney General
Alberto Michael Mukasey thinks that DoJ lawyers should be able to offer opinions without having to worry about justifying those opinions to Congress.
I respectfully disagree with
Ashcroft Gonzales Mukasey on this. Anyone who went through the first year of law school and who was awake for some of the Constitutional Law classes knew better. What happened here is that Vice President "Darth" Cheney wanted to turn the Constitution into a dead document, he wanted to turn this nation into a
de facto dictatorship and he found lawyers who were more than happy to go along with his program.
The only thing that saved this country from sliding completely into tyranny is that the Bush Administration has proven itself to be even more incompetent than it has been thuggish.
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although as incompetent as they are -- they have gone a long way towards that abyss...
i am still not convinced he is leaving next january
Neither am I.
Oh, I am convinced he's leaving...I'm just not convinced that any of the three potential replacements is any flipping better -- rhetoric be damned.
The problem with government is, once they get the power (or the tax money), they never give that shit up.
"Oh, it's a terrible violation of privacy...but it's already been enacted, so let's just use it for GOOD!"
Good being subjective as Hell.
Either way, we're at the mercy of politicians who are completely disconnected from how the rest of us actually live.
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