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As we previously noted , our colleague Weston Kosova gave the Obama administration some much-needed grief on Friday for refusing a federal judge's recent order to turn over documents showing how big telecommunications firms lobbied to get immunity for their participation in President Bush's
showing how big telecom firms lobbied Congress (and the Bush White House) for immunity for their role in warrantless wiretapping . We wonder: could this have anything to do with the fact that candidate Obama flipped his position during
As one of President George W. Bush's top intelligence officials, Gen. Michael Hayden conceived the controversial warrantless-wiretapping program while head of the National Security Agency and then, in 2006, was sent to clean house at the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden spoke recently to
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for instance, is the Obama White House fighting so hard to prevent the release of documents about who lobbied Congress to give immunity to the telephone companies that cooperated with Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program?
executive privilege, and their judicial appointees were eager to grant it. (Anyone recall their complete circumvention of the FISA court ? Just askin'.) 4. The appointment of czars makes Obama a communist about as much as a fake Kenyan birth certificate
those who would like to use civil litigation" to pry loose government secrets about rendition, torture and warrantless wiretapping ," said Robert Chesney, a University of Texas law professor who specializes in national-security law
Bush Administration use of executive authority including it self justification it's rationalizations. Of warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. Our story in the countdown that was then this is now president Obama's Justice Department
ultimately led to such controversial policies as allowing the waterboarding of terror suspects and permitting warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens—steps that remain the subject of ongoing investigations by Congress and the Justice Department
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