News and Politics | February 04, 2009 | 38 comments

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

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Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a 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.

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

  • mesencephalon
  • SometimesTheFur
  • kennymotown
  • mik661
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • obama doesn't have the prower to air Executive Privelege decisions. His first two weeks in office have been a big circus. He's not prepared to do his job. He's lost.

    • 3 years ago
  • mik661
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      mik661  

    • Bush=Failure C student failed businessman stole an election read goat story while towers crashed invaded wrong country bankrupted economy drunken pretzel choking rube.

    • 3 years ago
  • mik661
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      mik661  

    • Screw Bush executive privelege. Obama has the power now print every one of them in full in the front section of the Times.

    • 3 years ago
  • PLH
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      PLH  

    • You must remember George Bush's first job was to protect the American public, and I don't seem to remember any terrorism on American soil after 9/11.
      I don't care about any "secret notes".
      He was honest to us, not a socialist. He did his best and lets hope the next guy does the same.

    • 3 years ago
  • UrbanGypsy
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      UrbanGypsy  
    • PLH:

      No, his number one job, as President of the United States, was to uphold the Constitution.

      But he bypassed the Constitution in the name of security. As Benjamin Franklin said:

      "Those who give up liberty for security will get neither and deserve none."

    • 3 years ago
  • igordy
  • prg
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      prg  
    • PLH:

      Hello PLH...if anthrax sent through the mail is not a terror attack then yes you are right. But let us not forget the fact that no one took responsibility for the anthrax and no one has been arrested either...just like 9/11. prg

    • 3 years ago
  • realitybytes
  • igordy
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      igordy [removed]  

    • Ya'll a bunch of feeble-minded morons - do the words Executive Privilege mean anything to you? Do you really think that ANY president of ANY country out there never made any tough, controversial or otherwise dangerous decision? Obama carris 100 times the dirt being in the office 2 weeks than Bush does after the two terms!!! Stop hating him - we have not been attacked for 8 years on our soil - things are about to change in that department if Hussein starts weakening our position on the terrorism. Think it is easy to run the most powerful country in the world? Really think he is an idiot? Well folks, I am here to tell you that without CNN and others like it, you wouldn't know what to think on your own!!! He is quite an intelligent guy, with strong convictions and clear mind. Whether right or not - history will be the judge - but it's not him who's an idiot - it is you who think that he is. Or that one can remain a saint while steering this ship called USA. Wake up, change the channel to FOX and start listening to both sides of the story. Else you are what you say he is - IDIOTS!!!

    • 3 years ago
  • humanpasta
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      humanpasta  
    • igordy:

      I urge you to follow your own advide igordy.....listen to both sides. Don't make excuses for anyone in political power it doesn't matter what side of the aisle you associate yourself with, corruption is corruption.

    • 3 years ago
  • thea_inthecity
  • prg
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      prg  
    • igordy:

      Wow, Obama carries 2x the dirt? Bush went AWOL way back. I understand that the law of nature may be a tough concept to comprehend BUT the trade center buildings that fell (reminder of the fact that three (3) trade center buildings fell) should never have fallen. Bush and company did not seem to care that the law of physics proves this. The unlawful war has created 5 million orphans...5,000,000 children needing a home. Tough decisions? This is blatant stupidity. I guess I did not understand that this was part of the plan....prg

    • 3 years ago
  • omshaantih
  • prg
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      prg  

    • George W(icked) Bush should have zero say in what is public property. Any and all documents of the American government is public property. The American people have been suckers by allowing the Bush administration to get away with defacing the constitution and creating corporate anarchy. Let us not allow him to take away the few crumbs left over that accidentally slipped through his fingers.

    • 3 years ago
  • Nephwrack
  • UrbanGypsy
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      UrbanGypsy  

    • I hope they make it all public. The Bush administration was the most secretive administration in history and considering al the scandals and disasters that it had, I wouldn't be surprised if they had some ugly skeletons in the closet...

      LOL, but in the immortal words of Dubya:

      "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." - George Walker Bush

    • 3 years ago
  • IamAlwaysRight
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      IamAlwaysRight  

    • What many of you fail to understand is that the ONLY reason Mr. Wonderful won the election is that a REAL conservative was not on the ballot. You are a rabid minority. I cannot wait until the moment his supporters find out that he really had no plans to make their home payments, as they thought they had been promised.

    • 3 years ago
  • quixotic12
  • cybexg
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      cybexg  
    • IamAlwaysRight:

      There are virtually no more real conservatives. REAL CONSERVATIVES were NEVER married to religion. It was the rise of the religious right w/ Regan that caused that conversion.

      Somehow...I'm willing to bet that I understand the conservative principles better than you. I wonder why that is

    • 3 years ago
  • ocanada
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • President Bush did nothing illegal or immoral and is proud of every decision he made....

      ...which is why he classified these memos under executive priviledge and will do everything in his power to keep the public from seeing them!

    • 3 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • nursediesel
  • Broey88
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      Broey88  

    • I think the state of the country, (the economy, the wars in the Mid East, undoing everything Bush did practically) is going to take precedence over convicting Bush and his administration any time soon. Furthermore, depending on how long our current crises take to get under control, the less interest Washington is going to have in prosecuting him. For the time being, undoing all his crimes is the best thing our current administration can do; if a trial is to be held it should be conducted by the world court.. that way he stands trial for his crimes not only against the American people, but for his war crimes as well.

    • 3 years ago
  • clownpuncher
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  
    • Broey88:

      I care more about John Yoo, Bibey, Hariet Myers, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Kempthorne, Douglas Feith, and Donald Rumsfield facing legal action than George W. Bush. Bush can't run again but underlings can burrow and run or aid other in running the country down the road. When we didn't prosecute the worst of the abused of the Nixon administration and let those who abused power back into polite society we caused a great deal of harm. We let Dick Cheney a high level official in that adminsitration to become the second most powerful person in the exexutive branch and gave him near unchecked authority.

    • 3 years ago
  • clownpuncher
  • skatherine
  • cybexg
  • dariusvons
  • clownpuncher
  • rickm8
  • artemis6
  • oscarjm84
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