So at this juncture, Obama is cleaning house and exposing all of the legal tweaking and rewriting that Bush lawyers made up to wiretap whoever they wanted to wiretap.
There must a some kind of dictum out there. If you have a Republican president he's going to trample on the Constitution. Oh, and let's not forget if you have a loud mouthed ranting idiot speaking to a conservative convention he's going to mis-quote the Constitution.
Yahoo: Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos
...following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants.
"The large number of videotapes destroyed confirms that the agency engaged in a systematic attempt to hide evidence of its illegal interrogations and to evade the court's order," Singh said.
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