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Is Obama embracing the lawless, omnipotent executive?

To prevent a ruling on whether Bush's NSA program was illegal, the Obama DOJ is on the verge of defying a court order, and justifying its defiance with Cheney/Addington theories of executive power.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, March 2, 2009 03:14 PM

    To paraphrase Ben-Gurion:

    it looks as though we're going to have to fight the Obama DOJ as if there were no Obama budget, and fight for the Obama budget as if there were no Obama DOJ.

    —SuperFobby Read SuperFobby's other letters

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