An Indefensible Defense - NYTimes

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Editorial
An Indefensible Defense
Published: October 24, 2010

It can be hard to distinguish between the Bush administration and the Obama administration when it comes to detainee policy. A case the Supreme Court agreed last week to hear, Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, is one of those occasions.

More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/opinion/25mon1.html?hp

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1. We have normalized torture.

I rather hoped this administration would have changed that.

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2. a classic example -- once a branch of government has a power, it doesn't just give it up

regardless of party, and regardless of whether or not obama ever would have initiated this particular power.

this is why the framers created a system of checks and balances, which party power and money have almost made irrelevant.