therawstory David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster It was during the Civil War that President Abraham Lincoln became known as a “constitutional dictator,” said former Nixon White House counsel John Dean during a Monday broadcast of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Responding to the recent release of several legal justifications for President Bush’s most criticized…
By DEVLIN BARRETT – 7 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants. The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror…
Obama Releases Secret Bush Anti-Terror Memos WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects. The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing…
Salon.com Senate will advance torture commission Is there a lot America doesn’t know about Bush torture policies? There is, says Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. “This is going to be big.” By Mark Benjamin AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Capitol Hill in September. Feb. 24,…
