I think Talking Points Memo is sounding just about the right note of alarm:
Attorney General Michael Mukasey...so far [has] dropped two big bombshells. DOJ will not be investigating: (1) whether the waterboarding, now admitted to by the White House, was a crime; or (2) whether the Administration's warrantless wiretapping was illegal. His rationale? Both programs had been signed off on in advance as legal by the Justice Department. We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it's not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it's not. ... It is a naked assertion of executive power. The founders would have called it tyrannical.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey...so far [has] dropped two big bombshells. DOJ will not be investigating:
(1) whether the waterboarding, now admitted to by the White House, was a crime; or
(2) whether the Administration's warrantless wiretapping was illegal.
His rationale? Both programs had been signed off on in advance as legal by the Justice Department.
We have now the Attorney General of the United States telling Congress that it's not against the law for the President to violate the law if his own Department of Justice says it's not. ... It is a naked assertion of executive power. The founders would have called it tyrannical.
Can we make it 347 more days without Congress selling the farm?
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