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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 12:00 AM

The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal

While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 11:11 AM

    Jebbie

    Our pet has said several time that the superpowers are derived from Article II.

    Meanwhile (h/t Emptywheel), Marisa Taylor has exposed more legal scholarship from John Yoo in a memo related to Bush's ability to start the Iraq war:

    In one lengthy section, Yoo expounds on the meaning of the word “and” and concludes that it should not be construed as a conjunction.

    Linked at my name.

    Okay, "and" is one letter longer than Clinton's record wrangling over "is", but denying the part of speech is some pretty impressive pretzel logic.

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