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December 7, 2007

The OLC

by AltHippo @ 1:29 pm. Filed under Bush, cheney

Recently I’ve finished reading Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine and Charlie Savage’s Takeover. I’d like to summarize one of the key mutual points of these books in my own words:

The Office of Legal Counsel has been used to game the system during the Bush administration. The result is that Nixon’s dictum about how anything the president of the United States does is legal, is pretty much how things go.

I think we’ve come to understand that just saying things like the Justice Department really needs to be independent of White House influence doesn’t mean much unless there’s some clear check and balance with Congress.

What I’m saying is that to de-Bushify the OLC, appointees would need to be other than friends of duck hunting partners of the president and vice-president. I’d also like to see the Federalist Society declared a terrorist organization, but that’s probably not going to happen.

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