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Originally Posted by ottopilot
It would be convenient to sweep this issue under the Republican floor mat, but history just doesn't agree with your assumption.
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No need to generalize and blame all Republicans...just Bush/Cheney with the complicity of their Attorneys General and the failure of the Republican majority Congress (at the time) to meet its oversight obligations.
I cant speak to all of history, but I know of no other recent president who used the Dept of Justice to attempt to rationalize actions that are counter to the Constitution, US laws and international treaty obligations. Specifically, the DoJ torture memo that claims a president can unilaterally define torture outside of the context of the Geneva Conventions or the UN Convention on Torture....or the DoJ memo rationalizing the use of an Authorization of Use of Military Force to justify the NSA wiretapping Americans w/o a warrant or holding foreign nationals indefinitely w/o any access to basic legal rights under US and international law.
One can only hope that the next DoJ will return to performing its primary function of enforcing the laws of the land rather than devoting its time and resources to providing "legal" justifications for questionable ideological acts of a sitting president.
What continues to keep me perplexed is the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" position of many conservative guardians of the Constitution in response to the Bush administration actions noted above.