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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Anonymous Liberal:
- [I]t appears that the White House was willing (and in fact did, for a time) authorize a program that the Justice Department--including the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the head of the OLC, and the FBI Director--had determined to be illegal. And if all of these people had not threatened to simultaneously resign, it is very likely that the White House would simply have continued renewing this program without the Justice Department's blessing.
That's a rather stunning fact, and one that I wish at least a few mainstream journalists would attempt to grasp the significance of. The White House authorized a program that everyone of significance in the Justice Department had determined to be lacking any legal basis. They willfully violated the law.
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hy-per-bole.
the WH didn't immediately stop a program that it had been told was fine, and had been running for 2 years. it did soon revise the program based upon justice's concerns.
