Legal Commentary

Mighty Morphin . . .

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Kevin Drum, imagine this being written at some progressive blogs:

President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred.

In courtroom battles and freedom-of-information fights from Washington, D.C., to California, Obama's legal arguments repeatedly mirror Bush's: White House turf is to be protected, secrets must be retained and dire warnings are wielded as weapons.

The DFHs at McClatchey, once the progressives' favorite news syndicate service.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).