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Post by maddogblues on Sept 22, 2009 21:10:20 GMT -5
...Shouldn't the government that made the law be obligated to obey it as well? www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/pers-s22.shtmlA thought provoking article. “Those men and women who undertake difficult intelligence assignments in the aftermath of an attack such as September 11 must believe there is permanence in the legal rules that govern their actions. They must be free, as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Senator Lieberman, has put it: ‘to do their dangerous and critical jobs without worrying that years from now a future attorney general will authorize a criminal investigation of them for behavior that a previous attorney general concluded was authorized and legal.’'
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