Report: Domestic surveillance program relied on flawed analysis {J. Yoo}

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: CNN

By Terry Frieden
CNN Justice Producer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated after the September 11 terrorist attacks relied on a "factually flawed" legal analysis inappropriately provided by a single Justice Department official, according to a report to Congress on Friday.

The report was compiled by the inspectors general of the nation's top intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Justice Department.

The report, mandated by Congress, provides fresh context to information previously leaked in press accounts and buttressed by both congressional testimony and books written by former officials involved in the surveillance effort.

The 38-page unclassified version of the document reaches a cautious conclusion, stating that any use of the information collected under the surveillance program "should be carefully monitored."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/10/bush.surveillance/index.html

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This report seems to have sparked several different press stories, with different emphasis in each. Mods may combine threads if appropriate, but I wanted to draw attention to the emphasis in this article on a decision by a single attorney deciding US policy in a particularly crucial area.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Everything about the bush administration was flawed.

Top down.

[Solly Mack]

2. intentionally skewed reasoning

a big difference

[pattmarty]

3. John Yoo should be flipping burgers at McDonalds................

...........For this ass hole to have a teaching job at a law school is more than laughable.

[GReedDiamond]

6. He'd fuck that up, too...nt

[PSPS]

4. Again, the "initiated after the September 11 terrorist attacks" lie

The highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated after the September 11 terrorist attacks relied on a "factually flawed" legal analysis inappropriately provided by a single Justice Department official, according to a report to Congress on Friday.

Um, the program actually started shortly after Bush was installed, well before 9/11.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/business/14qwest.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202485_pf.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/13/nation/na-qwest13

I'm getting tired of the corporate press still running interference for the Bush criminal junta.

[No Elephants]

5. Email addresses for Yoo's current employers

"He has been a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Law (Boalt Hall) since 1993. He is currently serving as a visiting professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, California."



http://www.law.berkeley.edu/2120.htm?url=http://www.law.berkeley.edu/about.htm

http://www.chapman.edu/law/contact.asp

[scentopine]

7. John Yoo also works for Phila Inquirer

And yoo better believe he sucks.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200905120028

Let the inquirer know that when you hear their name, you'll associate them with the vile and unspeakable acts this man blessed.

http://www.philly.com/philly/about/feedback/

We are literally a hair's breadth away from Goebbels and the like. Think it can't happen again? Listen carefully to fox news and you will hear Nazis talking.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Thanks for that info! nt