devil21
01-06-2009, 12:25 AM
Dawn Johnsen. She was also Bill Clinton's head of WH legal counsel! The more things Change, the more they stay the Same.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090105/pl_mcclatchy/3137560
The most startling shift was Obama's pick of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen to take charge of the Office of Legal Counsel , the unit that's churned out the legal opinions that provided a foundation for expanding President George W. Bush's national security powers.
Johnsen, who spent five years at the Office of Legal Counsel during the Clinton administration and served as its acting chief, has publicly assailed ``Bush's corruption of our American ideals.'' Upon the release last spring of a secret Office of Legal Counsel memo that permitted the aggressive interrogations of terrorism suspects, she excoriated the unit's lawyers for advising Bush ``that in fighting the war on terror, he is not bound by the laws Congress has enacted.''
contd at link
Startling? To who exactly is this pick startling? Just another recycled Clinton administration stooge.
And another gem from the same article:
Obama also said that he'd nominate:
— David Ogden , a top Justice Department official during the Clinton administration, as deputy attorney general, the No. 2 figure under Attorney General-designate Eric Holder .
— Elena Kagan , the dean of the Harvard University Law School and a former Clinton White House aide, as solicitor general.
— Tom Perrelli , counsel to Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno from 1997 to 1999, as the associate attorney general who oversees civil matters.
The president-elect said that he hoped that the four appointees would restore ``integrity, depth of experience and tenacity'' to the lead federal law-enforcement agency, which has been battered by scandal.
Are we sure Hillary didn't really win the election with Obama as a figurehead? Sure looks like it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090105/pl_mcclatchy/3137560
The most startling shift was Obama's pick of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen to take charge of the Office of Legal Counsel , the unit that's churned out the legal opinions that provided a foundation for expanding President George W. Bush's national security powers.
Johnsen, who spent five years at the Office of Legal Counsel during the Clinton administration and served as its acting chief, has publicly assailed ``Bush's corruption of our American ideals.'' Upon the release last spring of a secret Office of Legal Counsel memo that permitted the aggressive interrogations of terrorism suspects, she excoriated the unit's lawyers for advising Bush ``that in fighting the war on terror, he is not bound by the laws Congress has enacted.''
contd at link
Startling? To who exactly is this pick startling? Just another recycled Clinton administration stooge.
And another gem from the same article:
Obama also said that he'd nominate:
— David Ogden , a top Justice Department official during the Clinton administration, as deputy attorney general, the No. 2 figure under Attorney General-designate Eric Holder .
— Elena Kagan , the dean of the Harvard University Law School and a former Clinton White House aide, as solicitor general.
— Tom Perrelli , counsel to Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno from 1997 to 1999, as the associate attorney general who oversees civil matters.
The president-elect said that he hoped that the four appointees would restore ``integrity, depth of experience and tenacity'' to the lead federal law-enforcement agency, which has been battered by scandal.
Are we sure Hillary didn't really win the election with Obama as a figurehead? Sure looks like it.