propublica.org — The ones that purportedly justified CIA "enhanced interrogation" techniques such as waterboarding. Many of them were not released today. Nor were some two dozen others having to do with surveillance, military commissions and executive power...
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Closed AccountJan 10, 2009
f**k you Bush!!!
apastafarianJan 10, 2009
Anyone surprised?
ajgasperJan 10, 2009
So they closed down the FOIA restricting people from seeing if their civil liberties have been violated, and now will not release the memos. Personally I think it is a matter of ensuring that those who perpetrated the crimes cannot be sued. Take the State on Maryland. The head of the State Police spied on citizens for years. Initially they said it was only a small handful who had protested against Maryland's Capital Punishment laws, and the war. Last week they said there were more that covered a broader cross section of citizens.The bottom line is the number is probably 10's to 100's of thousands. That number of lawsuits flooding the court system would be detrimental. Some could be addressed through class action lawsuits, but there are undoubtedly a far greater number of individuals who were spied upon in retaliation by individual government employees. These are not senior level people. People who wrote representatives of government corruption, people who filed charges against individuals who made major contributions to politician's campaigns, and government officials with personal vendetta's were in all likelihood spied upon.
redcolumbineJan 10, 2009
We came this close to a Stalinist totalitarian regime. We're still way too close for comfort. These executive immunities need to be repealed, and specifically proscribed for the future.