Cass Sunstein cautions against prosecuting criminal conduct from the current Administration. He thinks that Alito and Roberts are “minimalists.”

Robert Bauer advocated pardoning Scooter Libby.

I have a very bad feeling about this.

Perhaps.

The Senator said that he would restore Habeus Corpus, close Gitmo, restore the Constitutional balance between the Executive and Congressional branches of government, and return the US to the rule of law!

Keep up the pressure, lambert!

Bush welcomes probe of CIA leak

President Bush said Tuesday he welcomes a Justice Department investigation into who revealed the classified identity of a CIA operative.

“If there’s a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is,” Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. “If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.

“I want to know the truth,” the president continued. “Leaks of classified information are bad things.”  Read more 

Do heads of departments like the NSA get sworn in, as in hand-on-the-Bible-and-take-an-oath sworn in? Or does some flunky just show them to their office and take them around to indicate where the cafeteria and the nearest men’s room is? If there’s a preserve-protect-and-defend-the-Constitution rule in effect, which being as this is the “National Security” Agency and all would seem like a good idea, it looks like we may need one of those stand-down time-outs for review of the pertinent operating rules:

Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Because they seem to have gotten a little confused on the objective here:

Thirteen anti-war activists were given citations Saturday for protesting outside the National Security Agency headquarters at Fort Meade.  Read more