Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public

[deminks]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Dozens_of_secret_Bush_terror_memos_0203.html

Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Administration legal positions on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping.

Meanwhile, Obama's freshly-confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder told senators that he was open to declassifying White House legal memos if no support for their original classification could be found, signaling a likely showdown with former President George W. Bush over executive privilege.

"The Bush administration's controversial policies on detentions, interrogations and warrantless wiretapping were underpinned by legal memoranda," Pro Publica's Dan Nguyen and Christopher Weaver write. "While some of those memos have been released (primarily as a result of ACLU lawsuits), the former administration kept far more memos secret than has been previously understood. At least three dozen by our count."

Nguyen and Weaver produced the chart. Propublica was founded in 2007 as a non-profit driven investigative news outlet and is run by a former managing editor from the Wall Street Journal.

The chart lists 40 memos that remain secret, along with identifying the 12 that have been made public.

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Chart at the link.

[myrna minx]

1. K&R n/t

[liberal N proud]

2. Building the evidence against those bastards

[Hekate]

3. Just follow the law where it leads you, friends... Just follow the trail. nt

[mwb970]

4. And the money. /nt

[HereSince1628]

5. Show down? Just release them. Have we learned nothing from Cheney?

What are they going to do? Bring a lawsuit against Obama? Really?????????????????

The operative phrase in the Cheney administration was "So what?" It works both ways.

[pleah]

6. Exactly!

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. In a showdown, both combatants are armed.

This administration has all the authority. Legal moral and public.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Perseverence Pays Off...

It took several years for people to get their hands on Nixon's documents, and I'm hoping this is the case here.

I have a lot of confidence in AG Holder doing what is right...and restoring the Justice Deparment as the people's lawyer, not that of the Executive. The over-reaching abuse of Executive power of the past 8 years needs to be rolled back and sunshine shown on what's underneath if we're ever able to restore the balance of power and legitamcy to both the government and the Justice Department.

Be assured the boooosh regime is going to fight this with all the Carlisle and Haliburton money they can throw. I expect a long drawn out court battle on executive (not just Presidential) records...in a vain attempt to keep the lid on the corruption. Methinks boooshie is betting his many plants on the District and Supreme Court will prevail and maintain his cone of silence.

[City Lights]

8. K&R

[MadMaddie]

10. I really believe when these type of documents get out

and more evidence keeps coming out Not just the liberals will be pissed off the folks that left the Repug party will truely be angered like never before.

Waiting...:popcorn: