BTW, I will be returning to the constitutional interpretation argument shortly. I was hoping to get back to the argument this weekend, but was distracted by the Master's golf tournament, and by President Obama's shocking adoption of Bush Administration positions on the State Secrets privilege, the denial of Habeus Corpus rights for U.S. detainees abducted around the world and flown to Afghanistan, and other matters (which I hope to write about soon - but which you can get a full update on at Glen Greenwald's blog at Salon.com). Go back through Glen's posts last week here and here and here and here.
Obama's justice department's positions are shocking - and Obama is clearly a liar. The positions Obama has taken are completely contrary to the positions he repeatedly and emphatically articulated during his campaign for the presidency. Greenwald documents this meticulously. Unbelievable!
I've completely lost my Obama love. And I'm somewhat in shock. Most of the poeple Obama nominated to the highest positions in the Justice Department, including the Office of Legal Counsel, were vehement critics of exactly these same policies - for years and years!
I'm completely at a loss. Either they are hiding massive criminality on the part of the Bush administration (which they mistakenly believe the country cannot bear to learn about) or they are simply liars that need to be removed from power.
Seriously - I am truly shocked.
I believed.
Joe H.
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Joe -
Is it possible that, once Obama and his cabinet got to their posts, they discovered that there either:
1. Was indeed material that needed to be hidden for the good of the country? Or, that...
2. The nature of what the Bush administration had done was not as bad as they thought from the outside?
Trying to be charitable to the big O.
Jim
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