The extent to which the government under the Bush Administration was prepared to sacrifice the ideals of a free and open democracy were shown to us in more detail by two news stories that appeared today.
The first involves how many videotapes of waterboarding by our government were destroyed and the second about a legal memo written by the infamous John Yoo attempting to justify the President having the sole authority to overturn freedom of the press and put the nation under military rule after the September 11th attacks.
CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes, Probe Says - washingtonpost.com
Extraordinary Measures
A new memo shows just how far the Bush administration considered going in
fighting the war on terror.
Bush-Era Anti-Terrorism Documents Made Public
from Politics - washingtonpost.com by R. Jeffrey Smith and Dan Eggen
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.
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