<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brent Neal</b> <<a href="mailto:brentn@freeshell.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">brentn@freeshell.org

</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

 (12/23/05 16:49) David Lubkin <<a href="mailto:extropy@unreasonable.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">extropy@unreasonable.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>Brent wrote:<br>><br>

>> >Read this please.<br>>><br>>> ><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/12%2022%2005%20NSA%20letter.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">

http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/12%2022%2005%20NSA%20letter.pdf</a><br>>><br>>>Read this please. It carries about as much weight as the letter you reference.<br>>><br>>><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202119.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202119.html</a> > >That's like claiming that an article in Newsweek carries as much >weight as a paper in Lancet. Then you clearly didn't read the article.

A Justice Department that has a record of dubious interpretation of the law writes a formal letter.  A Senator who was involved in the passage of the law referenced says, "No, we explicitly left that authority out."  A quick check confirms that the section reads as he stated.  That seems like a no-brainer to me.

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<br>"The braying herds have already concluded, Tenet-like, that the

president's actions were slam-dunk illegal. It takes a superior mix of

partisanship, animus and ignorance to say that. "</div><br></div><br>