The OLC Opinion Eliminating the 4th Amendment (and "Justifying" the Warrantless Wiretap Program)
Remember that OLC opinion abolishing the 4th amendment? Well, it pretty clearly provides the basis for the Administration’s illegal wiretap program.
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Remember that OLC opinion abolishing the 4th amendment? Well, it pretty clearly provides the basis for the Administration’s illegal wiretap program.
Is here. Or rather, the Inspector General’s report describing his criminal referral for lying to Congress.
We have referred this matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for a decision on whether the evidence warrants a criminal prosecution. We provided to the prosecutor the evidence we gathered in the course of our investigation, including transcripts of interviews and relevant documents and e-mails.
When Senators hold confirmation hearings for their own, it’s really more of an organized love fest than a contentious hearing.
Given that Orrin Hatch will support–and has always said he would support–Eric Holder, the big drama over his difficult confirmation must be intended to serve some other purpose. As I’ve been saying, one thing it will do is postpone the time until Obama has a working DOJ.
CRS says that the Senate can exclude Roland Burris. But that doesn’t mean they will.
Larry Summers assures Congress that Obama will use TARP to get money in the hands of small businesses and consumers. That’s good–because we already have proof that doing so will help the economy.
The business lobbyists who used to run the White House are complaining about the treatment they’re now getting. I know that will make you sob for them.
A while back, I wrote a post called We’re all Flint, MI now. Mitch Albom just wrote a story that might as well be called We’re all Detroit, now. It’s long–so to induce you to read it, I’m going to give you an almost-spoiler.Because we may be a few steps behind the rest of the country, but we’re a few steps ahead of it too.
Sorry, no music for this week’s trash, but we’ve got hubcaps!!
It looks like Barney Frank is trying to reverse the really punitive aspects of the auto rescue plan snuck into the loan terms by Bush.