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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008

Stuart Taylor: Obama Should Conduct Illegal Surveillance

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A pretty stunning Stuart Taylor column in the National Journal : Civil libertarians are rightly outraged by the brutality of some Bush administration interrogation methods; by Bush’s denial of fair hearings to hundreds of suspects at Guantanamo and elsewhere who claim that they are ...

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National Journal Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Stuart Taylor Edition)
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? We all ask this question. There is something that some of you all can do today. And I beg you to please do so. If you subscribe to the National Journal, pick up the phone and cancel your subscription, telling whoever you speak to that you will not resume until Stuart Taylor, Jr., is fired from the National Journal's staff. Outsourced to Matthew Yglesias: Matthew Yglesias: A pretty stunning Stuart Taylor column in the National Journal: [C]ivil ...

Stuart Taylor: Obama should carry on Bush legacy of illegal wiretaps and ‘kick’ the Left ‘in the teeth.’
Think Progress — ... Matt Ygelsias notes, “For years now the sensible center has engaged in the weird conceit that dislike of illegal violations of Americans’ constitutional liberties is some kind of odd symptom of possessing unduly vocifierous dislike of George W. Bush. But the issue, of course, extends far beyond Bush. The issue is whether or not we’re going to have meaningful limits on the power of the federal executive to conduct surveillance.” ...

Will Sunstein Stun?
TalkLeft — Matt Yglesias is "stunned" by Stuart Taylor, who writes: Obama will have a choice: He can give the Left what it wants and weaken our defenses. Or he can follow the advice of his more prudent advisers, recognize that Congress, the courts, and officials including Attorney General Michael Mukasey have already moved to end the worst Bush administration abuses — and kick the hard Left gently in the teeth. I’m betting that Obama is smart and tough enough to do the latter. The advisor to watch on this is Cass Sunstein, who ...

Low-energy blogging
The Sideshow — ... that direction." Mukasey says there's no need for Bush to pardon anyone since no one did anything wrong. I keep hoping it's all a big fake-out so Bush manages to believe that everyone agrees Bush can't be prosecute, and therefore he won't pardon anyone - after which prosecutions can begin in earnest. Mark Kernes reminds us (here and here) of another reason US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan should be fired if she won't go willingly. Stuart Taylor thinks Obama Should Conduct Illegal Surveillance. (via) Who said: "I knew ...