This Week in Tyranny

Attorney General Michael Mukasey continues to be a disgrace to his office and his country.  In a commencement address to Boston College Law School he said ( via ): In short, the message sent to our national security lawyers in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was clear; it was bipartisan; and it was all but unanimous. It was that the legal culture in our intelligence agencies, and in the Justice Department, was too risk-averse.  It needed to be more aggressive, it needed to push to the limits of the law, to give policymakers and operators the most flexibility possible to confront the existential threat of international terrorism. He seems to believe the judicial system has no obligation to evaluate such messages, just that lawyers should get their marching orders and follow them.  If those orders are to “push the limits of the law” or to operate with more “flexibility” (a hateful euphemism) then so be it.  That is his vision of the J...