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To: KLP who wrote (287231)1/13/2009 1:39:43 AM
From: FJB1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793955
 
Perhaps Obama's most important staff choice on this front was Dawn Johnsen, who will head Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. Johnsen, a law professor at the University of Indiana, was a fierce critic of Bush administration interrogation policies and the legal opinions underlying them. She recently wrote that "the assistant attorney general for OLC and other top Department of Justice officials must also be prepared to resign in the extraordinary event the President persists in acting unlawfully or demands that OLC legitimize unlawful activity."

Dawn and O better not end up with blood on their hands.



To: KLP who wrote (287231)1/13/2009 12:17:12 PM
From: mph3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793955
 
On the one hand, he's dialing back some of the national security powers that have been controversial over the last eight years," said Cato's Healy. "On the other hand, he seems very comfortable redesigning the economy by executive fiat."

That's because Obama is all about personal power and votes.

He'll slow up the dialing back of Presidential power once he is actually in office.


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