Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found

[kpete]

Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public
John Byrne
Published: Tuesday February 3, 2009

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.

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

[drm604]

1. K&R

There's something wrong with my TV machine. It keeps talking about taxes instead of stuff like this.

[lpbk2713]

2. I hope there is enough evidence to put the telcos in deep shit.

Their complicity is common knowledge, all we need is strong evidence.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicon Homelander Occultism

is so anti-American...

Expose the dark side of Republicon Homelander OCCULTISM

[FormerDittoHead]

4. The greatest testimony about the Bush legacy is the lack of objections to reversing his policies.n/t

[Gregorian]

5. It's the list of the making of a fascist state.

My honest feeling right now is that Bush and his gang deserve the death penalty. And I'm completely against the death penalty. Bush is still president until his stench is cleaned off of this country.


And here we thought the millennium computer bug was going to be bad.

[ThomWV]

6. Holder's nomination set the stage for the greatest Constitutional conflict we will ever see

Mark my words, its coming.

[lib_wit_it]

7. We still have a Constitution?

[pleah]

8. K&R