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In his column from our June issue David Weigel assesses the predictions of civil liberties and executive power watchdogs, five plus years after being told they were doing a lot of worrying about nothing.
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|5.15.07 @ 9:37AM|#
How could anyone have forseen a situation in which government agents might abuse a process which allows them to write their own warrants (which include a gag order)?
|5.15.07 @ 10:34AM|#
...The White House had fired eight competent U.S. attorneys for, among other things, not working hard enough to prosecute Democrats. Washington State's John McKay hadn't dug into claims of Democratic voter fraud in a governor's race...
Clarification: McCay did investigate the claims of voter fraud and came to the conclusion that there was nothing to prosecute.
|5.15.07 @ 10:38AM|#
Nonsense! There is nothing that needs to be done! We pigs have been living under the very letter of the great rules as interpreted by us!
biologist|5.15.07 @ 3:21PM|#
good article, David