Reply #2: Yes, but it's ok as long as Obama gets "infuriated" again. [View All]

[Senator]

From the recent http://www.newsweek.com/id/206300/output/print">Gee, It's Hard To Be Eric thingy:

The first detonation occurred in only the third week of the administration, soon after a Justice lawyer walked into a courtroom in California and argued that a lawsuit, brought by a British detainee who was alleging torture, should have been thrown out on national-security grounds. By invoking the "state secrets" privilege, the lawyer was reaffirming a position staked out by the Bush administration. The move provoked an uproar among liberals and human-rights groups. It also infuriated Obama, who learned about it from the front page of The New York Times. "This is not the way I like to make decisions," he icily told aides, according to two administration officials, who declined to be identified discussing the president's private reactions. White House officials were livid and accused the Justice Department of sandbagging the president. Justice officials countered that they'd notified the White House counsel's office about the position they had planned to take.

Which of course is nonsensical, because if Obama didn't know about the decision and is ostensibly precluded from effecting it, however he might "like to make decisions" shouldn't enter into it.

But as long as he "icily told aides" then he's free from all responsibility I suppose.

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