Panetta at CIA and Johnsen at OLC
While I want the thing eliminated, at least the CIA may now be run by someone with an inclination to obey the law, at least on torture:
"A CIA director who has denounced torture, advocated intelligence cuts, and backed greater congressional control of covert operations--that would be....different." READ MORE.
And how about a head of the Office of Legal Counsel who says this:
"we must regain our ability to feel outrage whenever our government acts lawlessly and devises bogus constitutional arguments for outlandishly expansive presidential power."
and this:
"We must avoid any temptation simply to move on. We must instead be honest with ourselves and the world as we condemn our nation's past transgressions and reject Bush's corruption of our American ideals." READ REST.
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Panetta has no experience in
Panetta has no experience in the field of intelligence whatsoever. He's got no intelligence!
This is the VERY encouraging!
Especially Dawn Johnson at OLC. I look forward to some effective remedial actions to take place with Ms. Johnson serving in this next administration. I haven't been this happy in months! Great News!
Now to get Eric Holder to pursue investigations (real ones), we just might make things uncomfortable for these animals that shit on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.
Encouraging
The appointment of Professor Johnsen is most encouraging for those lawyers who are committed to the Rule of Law.
I suspect that lawyers such as David Addington and John Yoo who are unabashedly more favorable to the law of men, i.e. George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, are much less enthused by this appointment.