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...mail messages on American soil" in the process--the CIA set up a network of secret prisons around the world in which interrogators employed techniques that violated established international norms. Meanwhile, Tenet's desire to earn the favor of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld led him to abandon the agency's traditional role as a nonpartisan arbiter of intelligence. That fostered a climate in which officials were discouraged from sending Bush inconvenient information--such as doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq's program for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Tenet is no stranger...
...press conference last month after the NSA program came to light, Gonzales cited last year's Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld as another implicit sanction of the presidential power to okay wiretaps. In that decision, the Justices upheld the detention, without charges, of U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi, whose designation as an enemy combatant was challenged by his lawyers. The court ruled that his detention was lawful because the "necessary force" provisions of the Sept. 14 resolution gave the President the power to engage in all "fundamental incidents" of war. "Even though signals intelligence is not mentioned...
...closest the administration has come to conceding it fumbled its handling of post-war Iraq. Bush's action effectively gives the State Department control over an area that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his minions ran in post-war Iraq. But before nightfall Thursday, Rumsfeld was fighting back. "I think we ought to try to avoid the nation-building concept," the defense chief told a Pentagon audience. "We ought to think of it as creating an environment that is hospitable for those people to be able to build their own nation and to fashion it in a way that fits...
During oral arguments in Rumsfeld v. FAIR last Tuesday, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy seemed surprised by Clement’s concession...
Clement’s concession would bolster the government’s contention that recruiters are not demanding special treatment on law school campuses, according to Howard J. Bashman, an attorney who filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case siding with Rumsfeld...