Yoo Suck

Go read the whole post for full potency. But sit down first, because you'll be shocked, shocked that the Bush administration would lie so cynically about something as crucial as civil liberties and then later lie--badly--about the lying. All with the plain truth in the public record. Can a clearer case be made for impeachment? Yet no impeachment procedings have been initiated. What will we tell the children?

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: FISA and Warrantless Surveillance: Then and Now

...So let's recap. In late 2003, just as the presidential primaries were heating up, Yoo assured us that 1) FISA was constitutional, 2) the Patriot Act had modernized FISA, making it capable of dealing with new technology and with the threat posed by terrorism, and 3) FISA protected Americans from from warrantless surveillance. But at the time this article was published, the Bush administration had been engaged in secret warrantless surveillance, in contravention of FISA, for over two years, and it had been doing so pursuant to a legal opinion drafted by Yoo.

Could the deceptiveness of the Bush administration on this issue be any clearer?

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