" Gen. Hayden ought to have been seen as the most defiant and inflammatory nominee possible for the President to have made. He was, after all, the Director of the NSA at the time it implemented its illegal warrantless eavesdropping program as well as its massive data-collection schemes, and he is a True Believer in the theories of presidential power which hold that the President has the right to violate the law. And he wasn't nominated to be the Agriculture Secretary, but the Director of the CIA -- probably the very worst position you would want someone to occupy with that history of surveillance lawbreaking and that system of beliefs regarding the rule of law."
* i've been meaning to read the USNews piece about Addington for a coupla days. I'm flat looking into a bunch of other things (as you can probably tell - apologies if it looks like i've been phoning it in these last few days). I still havent read it cos it's kinda long - but we all know addington is one of the evil-est MF's around - so perhaps you should take a look.
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Good article.
Too bad Addington's unitary executive arguments weren't viewed as part of a blueprint for the implementation of a fascist dictatorship.
shit - i still havent got to the article.
dreyfuss also wrote one recently about cheney's henchmen
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