Gang, I don't know if you've been following the troubles over at the Justice Department. You should probably start tuning in. I'm sensing some Grade A dung in mid-flight for yon wind-blowing mechanism.
The Washington Post, in the wake of Comey, has this rather actively-verbed editorial today. Here are some choice snippets:
- On Bush's evasion of the question posted yesterday about Comey's testimony: No one is asking Mr. Bush to talk about classified information, and no one is discounting the terrorist threat.
- Laying it out on the table in neat, even rows: [T]he president authorized the program the Justice lawyers had refused to certify as legally permissible, and it continued for a few weeks more, according to... Comey. Under the Constitution, the president has the final authority in the executive branch to say what the law is. But as a matter of presidential practice, this is breathtaking.
- "Oh yeah‽ What are you gonna do about it?": The administration... was willing to go forward, against legal advice, with a program that the Justice Department had concluded did not "honor the civil liberties of our people." Nor is it clear that Congress was adequately informed. The president would like to make this unpleasant controversy disappear behind the national security curtain. That cannot be allowed to happen.
