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Obama's impressive new OLC chief

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 04:12 PM

    Glenn

    Amazing, isn't it - it's always about them. They're all upset because Obama didn't get their permission first -- and because he brought in an outsider rather than some CIA hack beholden to the Rockefeller/Feinstein feifdom -- so they go and undercut Obama and Panetta publicly over nothing more than their own feelings of resentment. What empty, little people they are.

    It could bery well be more than "nothing more than their own feelings of resentment" at work here.

    If they're in this crap up to their ears, they might actually have a personal/legalstake in not having an investigation into torture or they might have a personal/legal stake in not allowing the courts to decide the matter of wiretapping.

    If they're on record of approving the lawbreaking (as Cheney claims), they might end up having to hire attorneys.

    Too bad.

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