[jessduntno]

If this were true, wouldn't Yoo be described in the Obama administration as a "Covert Czar?"

Not saying this crap is true about the Bush WH...but it certainly makes a fine point about the danger of CZARS, and most especially Czars with powers that can circumvent protocols and are answerable to only the President dunt it?????

WHAT SAY YOU, POtuS?

[GeronL]

Well thank God for that

[Gaffer]

If anyone thinks one of these new Czars, administration officials, or connected ACORN operatives haven’t directed the US intel agencies to start monitoring ‘subversives’ I have a bridge to sell you.

[cranked]

Matters not to me how the LATimes wants to play the ‘protect Barry’ game; more than 7 years without a single major terrorist attack on U.S. soil speaks volumes...

[YHAOS]

"Report: Bush-era surveillance went beyond wiretaps"

I certainly hope so.

[PGR88]

Obama’s numbers must be down - time for the MSM to bring back the bogey-man Bush again.

[elpadre]

at the time this occurred, the nation was short on reliable information, and the methods used were justified, IMHO.

Justice had tied one hand behind the back of the FBI (the wall) and CIA under Clinton was notoriously impotent.

[ETL]

'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"Today, Ayers and his wife -- fellow former Weather Underground fugitive Bernardine Dohrn -- live in Hyde Park, where they moved after surrendering in 1980. Federal charges against the two were dropped because of improper surveillance, so they avoided prison.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213,CST-NWS-ayers18.article

[Prince of Space]

So is the Justice Department trying to say they were once again fooled by Dubya....wait, I thought he was supposed to be stupid....and if so, how smart does that make them?

[muawiyah]

Just can't get it out of my mind. The LA Times cheated on their postage calculations; they cheated on their advertisers; they cheated......

Why is it I can't believe anything they print.

[Wuli]

They are still after Yoo, as if he was a criminal for saying what the law said at the time - water boarding may be harsh, may be extremely harsh, but it does not meet the standard tests for torture. He’s a lawyer, and its a legal opinion. Of course leave to the left to criminalize a legal opinion they don’t like.