Lawyers, their clients and wiretapping

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 8:37 AM PST

2006/01/29 · 08:37

There is a good article in Newsweek about the Justice Department lawyers and the administration. Short take--lawyers who did not give the desired opinion were pressured and eventually a number of them were penalized or forced out only to be replaced by more accomodating persons. The bad actor is a water carrier for cheney. The specific subjects of the opinions were torture and wiretapping. However, no one who has read the papers over the last five years can reasonably expect that the problem was limited to either national defense issues or lawyers. Although I focus on lawyers, the same issues arise in the context of science (see today's articles on the NASA global warming expert)and a host of other issues (ask yourself about prewar intelligence).

A few lessons from this:
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