18 Responses to Turley On Countdown: Released OLC Memos, “The Very Definition Of Tyranny”

1. Suzanne March 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm «

   wow, thanks
2. newtonusr March 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 pm «

   Yep. He wants them taken all the way down.
   Thank you Eureka.
   Rec’d.
3. Eureka Springs March 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 pm «

   Somebody gave Jonathon an extra serving of Wheaties… He’s always great, but this is as sharp and succinct as ever. Jane has competition. /s
• newtonusr March 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm «

  He can see that this is starting to open up, and is going to prod for all he can get. He is more than angry about all this. He is personally sickened, as he should be.
• Eureka Springs March 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 pm «

  So are we!

  I do hope he’s talking to folks like Senators Leahy and Whitehouse, among others.
• newtonusr March 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm «

  And Bruce Fein. Two Conservative heavyweight intellects who are both appalled.
• Eureka Springs March 3rd, 2009 at 9:36 pm «

  Good point. Has Bruce been on KO recently? I haven’t seen him in a while.
• newtonusr March 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm «

  Neither have I. I haven’t seen Fein since a committee hearing last year – the one at which Elizabeth Holtzman also appeared.
• acquarius74 March 4th, 2009 at 3:10 am «

  Thanks, Eureka Springs. It’s always good to hear Jonathan Turley make such firm statements that express my own thoughts about Georgie’s reign of terror.

  You ask about Bruce Fein; did you see him on Bill Moyers’ Journal? It was sometime in the Fall. Great interview. I’ll hunt link and be back.
4. dmac March 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 pm «

   turley excerpt on his contemporary john yoo’s work–”first of all, it’s really bad!”

   oh my, ’bout time.

   thanks eureka.

   thanks newton for linking.
5. bluebutterfly March 4th, 2009 at 12:45 am «

   I wonder if there are any memos about this blank check?
   ******

   ” Prince appointed a new president and chief operating officer in a management shake-up that he said was part of the company’s “continued reorganisation and self-improvement”. It comes less than a month after changing the company’s name to Xe.

   Although Prince will retain his position as chairman, he is removing himself from day-to-day operations. Spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said he planned to spend more time with his family of seven children and planned to open a private-equity venture. “

   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/iraq…..d=10559846
6. klynn March 4th, 2009 at 5:46 am «

   Thanks for this post ES.
7. goldpearl March 4th, 2009 at 6:10 am «

   “we need a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR”

   which is why i won’t sign/didn’t circulate leahy’s petition for a *truth commission*

   i just don’t understand leahy since obama took office…..
• Kassandra March 4th, 2009 at 5:45 pm «

  Yeah, me too. I prefer Pelosi’s idea. We don’t put these “people” behind bars, they’
  ll keep turning up like they have since Nixon
8. cbl March 4th, 2009 at 7:21 am «

   thanks Eureka ! rec.

   after all we have witnessed and survived, was surprised to find myself sobbing when Professor Turley uttered the word “tyranny”
9. egregious March 4th, 2009 at 9:47 am «

   Fascinating as he speaks of Bush era lawyers as being his friends, but friends who lacked personal conviction to do the right thing.

   And I loved hearing him laugh at the end. I think he senses the thaw.
10. bluebutterfly March 4th, 2009 at 3:33 pm «

    The mystery of lost votes is solved.
    ***********

    ” After three months of investigation, California’s secretary of state has released a report examining why a voting system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly known as Diebold) lost about 200 ballots in Humboldt County during November’s presidential election.

    But the most startling information in the state’s 13-page report (.pdf) is not why the system lost votes, which Wired.com previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold’s vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (Gems), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system. “

    http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok…..finds.html
11. Kassandra March 4th, 2009 at 5:44 pm «

    Di you see the guy who admits we have been in a dictatorship for 8 years? Of course, WE knew, but the sheeple didn’t/ I can’t wait to hold some feets to the fire………