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Justice Department •reluctance of to give the Obama transition team access to classified legal opinions that were used by the CIA and the National Security Agency to justify, among other breaches of civil liberties, warrantless spying, indefinite detention and, of course, the use of torture...
...wealthy and cuts in the capital gains tax) to energy policy (he forced a reversal on President Bush's 2000 campaign promise to reduce carbon emissions). The bulk of the book's drama, though, is found in Cheney's role in running the government's now infamous warrantless wiretapping program...
...Cheney and his legal counsel, David Addington, effectively steer White House policy on the warrantless wiretapping program. "With Bush's consent , Cheney unleashed foreign intelligence agencies to spy at home ... It is unlikely that the history of U.S. intelligence includes another operation conceived and supervised by the office of the vice president." When the Deputy Attorney General refuses to re-authorize the program, the stubbornness of Cheney and his team almost leads to mass resignations at the Justice Department...
...throttled for a century by two parties whose core differences are narrowing. The current general election has seemed at times a contest about who can crib off the other party's platform more, from McCain's enthusiasm for using government to fight global warming to Obama's hedging on warrantless wiretapping. For an electorate having a harder time distinguishing Coke from Pepsi, there's a thirst for something--anything...
...proposed fisa deal is not a compromise; it is a capitulation.' RUSS FEINGOLD, Wisconsin Senator, after the House passed a bill retroactively shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits arising from warrantless eavesdropping...