White House Lawyers Who Drafted Secret Awlaki Kill Memo Were Critics Of Bush’s War Powers -- Hot Air
Not the first time that the left’s anti-war legal heroes have morphed from civil libertarians when Bush was in office to war-power expansionists once they went to work for The One. Remember when Harold Koh convinced Obama that he didn’t need to bother with congressional authorization after all if he wanted to wage war in Libya? Good times.
The latest converts to the church of It’s Okay When We Do It: OLC lawyers David Barron and Martin Lederman, who, it turns out, co-authored the legal memo last summer arguing that the killing of Awlaki was legal, notwithstanding the fact that he was an American citizen.
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My Comment: Of course .... most if not all of the critics of President Bush are now deathly silent on this issue. Sighhhh .... it seems that hypocrisy knows no bounds when it comes to politics.
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