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To: epicure who wrote (116493)	7/25/2009 10:05:08 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542201

Report: Bush mulled sending troops into Buffalo Thanks. Fascinating. Just read it over breakfast. The paragraph that interested me the most was the following, which is not included in the text you posted. Former officials said the 2002 debate arose partly from Justice Department concerns that there might not be enough evidence to arrest and successfully prosecute the suspects in Lackawanna. Mr. Cheney, the officials said, had argued that the administration would need a lower threshold of evidence to declare them enemy combatants and keep them in military custody. And the author of the DOJ memorandum which Cheney and Addington based their arguments on? John Yoo. Two thoughts. There are two lines of argument here that interest me, perhaps two books. One book is about the whole business of John Yoo. Who is he, how did he get appointed, how was he picked for the role he played, how much did Cheney and Addington simply select Yoo to give them the opinions they wanted (much as they worked the CIA to give them the Iraq WMD opinions they wanted), where was the rest of the DOJ, and so on. The second line of argument/book is Bush as resisting Cheney. There is a "Bush as a good guy" book, or very long essay, which goes into great detail on all the times Bush resisted outlandish Cheney arguments. Might go some distance toward bringing Bush back from the present consensual judgment that he is among the worst presidents in US history.