Hang ‘em high
I know that Mr. Obama wants to look to the future rather than dwell on the past, but as more Bush-era insanity is revealed I can’t help feeling that this will all happen again someday unless some of these jokers (like Yoo or Gonzalez) end up in jail or at the very least lose their license to practice law. To claim broad powers to set aside constitutional protections for US citizens in a time of war – arguably a war of opportunity unilateraly declared by the very president claiming these powers – amounts to a dictatorship and an obvious violation of the most basic founding principles of our nation. Yes, the Congress authorized the use of force in Afghanistan and (incredibly) Iraq, but even John Yoo’s initial public take on that authorization limited it to the use of force against foreign enemies.