Posted on 01/05/2009 8:12:20 PM PST by FocusNexus
In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll back Bush administration counterterrorism policies authorizing harsh interrogation techniques, warrantless spying and indefinite detentions of terrorism suspects.
The most startling shift was Obama's pick of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen to take charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, the unit that's churned out the legal opinions that provided a foundation for expanding President George W. Bush's national security powers.
Johnsen, who spent five years in the Office of Legal Counsel during the Clinton administration and served as its acting chief, has publicly assailed "Bush's corruption of our American ideals." Upon the release last spring of a secret Office of Legal Counsel memo that backed tactics approaching torture for interrogations of terrorism suspects, she excoriated the unit's lawyers for encouraging "horrific acts" and for advising Bush "that in fighting the war on terror, he is not bound by the laws Congress has enacted."
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
How can any sensible person wish that Obama succeeds, is beyond me. Do we want him to succeed in completely destroying the US, including killing innocent Americans, because he doesn't want to interrogate the terrorists, to prevent attacks on us?
Testimony of Dawn Johnsen before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution: http://judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/08-04-30Johnsen - Dawn - testimony.pdf
“Outrage at the Latest OLC Torture Memo,” by Johnsen: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/03/outrage-at-the-latest-olc-torture-memo.aspx
I want the birth certificate issue settled before he takes the oath. If he is an imposter it should be known before hand. Not that Biden or the Red Queen would be any better. They all want this country to fail.
I no longer believe they are "innocent and gullible".
The Sheep are Leftists - they are accessories to the crimes about to be committed, and are as guilty of seditious actions as The One (piss be upon him) and all his minions.
They intentionally gave The One (his name be pissed) all this power over them, because they love him. They have broken faith with their country and what's left of the descendants of the American Revolution.
Another re-tread. Rahm, Podesta, Richardson, Hillary, Holder, etc., etc.....
I do not think the BC issue will be resolved in the next two weeks, if it ever will be, so dont get your hopes up about that. It may end up being an issue that dogs him like a nagging toothache until it is resolved one way or the other.
extreme sarc/off
Leniency to terrorists becomes a death sentence to innocent Americans.
Great...back to the Clinton policies that allowed the 9/11 cells to sit here for years. Some even training for their mission on US soil.
The reason for the "unity" and "goodwill" we all felt after 9/11 is because liberals, like many foreigners, love the idea of America prostrate and wounded.
It was all sympathy and sorrow for the victims, but not a whit of righteous anger and resolve.
I'll admit that I was fooled briefly, and thought I was seeing the latent patriotism that I was sure every American had, somewhere.
Goodie. More do-gooders = more terror-doers. Nice knowing you’all.
want to bet the outraged Dawn Johnsen, set to release hard core terrorists back into their preferred killing fields of western cities and airports, will not travel by commercial air?
“for security reasons”
of course
up next ...Jamie Gorelick
...well what can I say? Terrorists will get better legal protection than ANY American citizen charged with ANYTHING.
Have a nice day and keep voting Democrat. :)
Screwed.
She served in the Department of Justice under President Bill Clinton as the Acting Assistant Attorney General heading the Office of Legal Counsel from 1997-1998, and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General from 1993-1996. From 1988-1993, Johnsen was the Legal Director for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America).
So, the new policy is free the terrorists and kill the babies. How nice.
Here she is:
Maybe if they ask the terrorists real sweet like, they’ll tell them all they want to know.
Seriously, the military won’t even bother trying if they know nothing will come of capturing them. Right?
In the most recent rankings of the Senate, Obama was #1, THE most liberal, Biden was #3. I presume the other 8 are well represented in The One’s Cabinet - anyone know their identities, rank and new jobs?
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