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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Birth of the War On Terror

The Department of Justice in the US has released a series of memos like this one in which the groundwork was laid for the recent spate of anti-terrorist legislation, including NSA´s increased wiretapping powers and the controversial Patriot Act. John Yoo was giving legal counsel to the White House following 9/11 and went further than just advising by also proposing measures to give powers to the president, that would legally circumvent the Fourth Amendment. Now although Obama is freeing prisoners from Guantanomo and undoing some of the other Bush blunders, the US has still managed to piss off a lot of people in the meantime, and that will be the thankless task of Obama and friends to try and clean up.

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