The Latest In The Annals Of B.S. Conservative Legal Theory

3:31 pm EST March 3rd, 2009 | News | 14 Comments

Anyone surprised? Anyone? Bueller?

The number of major legal errors committed by Bush administration lawyers during the formulation of its early counterterrorism policies was far greater than previously known, according to internal Bush administration documents released for the first time by the Justice Department yesterday.

Those policies were based on at least 10 legal opinions conferring broad powers on the president that the Justice Department later deemed flawed and ordered withdrawn, including several approving the military’s search, detention or trial of civilians in the United States without congressional input, according to the documents.

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14 Responses to “The Latest In The Annals Of B.S. Conservative Legal Theory”

  1. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 3, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    So when do the investigations and prosecutions begin?

    Oh, that’s right. Not gonna happen.

  2. joaquin says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Pfffft! Dude, nobody cares.

    Markets are caving in the Obama recession.

    Obama is backpedaling on his most basic campaign pledges.

    World leaders are laughing at the rookie in The White House?

    And you are talking about W????

    Dude, Obama is quickly running out of folks to blame…………….for everything.

  3. Grumpymann says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    Incompetent + Evil X racist = Cons

  4. Rheinhard says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Bush Admin legal errors?

    Dude, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

  5. jr says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Friends don’t let friends become unitary executive theorists

  6. matt621 says:
    March 3, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Almost as Consitutional as giving the District of Columbia a vote in Congress!

  7. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 3, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    joaquin: Pfffft! Dude, nobody cares.

    Ah, so you don’t have a problem with people breaking the law and stomping all over the Constitution. Interesting to know.

    joaquin: Markets are caving in the Obama recession.

    Seriously? The market implosion, the bailout of Wall Street. You’re saying Obama is responsible for things that happened before he was even elected?

    joaquin: World leaders are laughing at the rookie in The White House?

    Oh, bullshit. Name them. Show me just one quote from significant world leader showing them “laughing at the rookie”.

  8. Jack J. says:
    March 3, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Hey, joachim, are you really trying to be a fool or is it genetics?

    You can’t have a recession that started 2 months ago. Go back to licking Limbaugh’s pubes.

  9. Parthenon says:
    March 3, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    So OW, anytime you post anything that doesn’t have to do with the bad economy, the conservatives will say ‘Gawd, there are better things to think about and you can only think about one thing at once.” There will not be a word about the topic at hand.

    In other words, they will collectively shout ‘OMFG LOOK OVER THERE SOMETHING SHINY!’

  10. mambochicken23 says:
    March 3, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Thanks, joaquin, for giving me the biggest belly laugh I’ve had in a long while… “Obama recession”… please. You idiots are so completely disconnected from reality, it’s just sad, really.

  11. Duros62 says:
    March 3, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Dude, Obama is quickly running out of folks to blame…………….for everything.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493021/

    While the poll — which was conducted of 1,007 adults from Feb. 26 to March 1, and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — finds Obama in a strong position after his first six weeks as president, the same isn’t true for Republicans.

    Just 26 percent view the Republican Party positively, which is an all-time low for the party. That’s compared with 49 percent who have a favorable view of the Democratic Party.

    In addition, a combined 56 percent say the previous Bush administration deserved “almost all” of the blame or a “major part” of the blame for the partisanship in Washington, and a combined 41 percent say the same of congressional Republicans.

    By contrast, only 24 percent say that of congressional Democrats and just 11 percent say that of the Obama administration.

    STFU.

  12. Duros62 says:
    March 3, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Oh, and another thing,
    World leaders are laughing at the rookie in The White House?

    Medvedev said that Russia was encouraged by Obama’s administration’s readiness to discuss Moscow’s complaints.

    “Our American partners are ready to discuss this problem, and that’s already positive,” he said at a news conference. “Several months ago we were hearing different signals: The decision has been made, there is nothing to discuss, we will do what we have decided to do.”

    Who’s laughing, fat boy?

  13. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 3, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Duros62: STFU

    I suspect he has, at least so far as “laughing at the rookie” goes.

  14. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    March 4, 2009 at 5:49 am

    “Who’s laughing, fat boy?”

    It’s like J.G.Thayer bragging about Palin’s Pipeline. They live in their own little world, and they want no part of reality.