Saturday, December 31

UNTYING OUR HANDS

An excellent column by former Nixon counsel John Dean on the illegality and impeachability of Bush's NSA spy program.

I especially like this quote:

"Michael Ignatieff has written that 'it is the very nature of a democracy that it not only does, but should, fight with one hand tied behind its back. It is also in the nature of democracy that it prevails against its enemies precisely because it does.' Yoo persuaded the Bush administration to untie its hand and abandon the constraints of the rule of law. Perhaps that is why we are not prevailing."

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