domestic spying

Bush Administration: Constitution is for Other People

A memo that was released yesterday demonstrates that John Yoo had another of his "opinions" after 9/11 that various unpleasant things done to prisoners by the military are just hunky-dory. You know, "assault, maiming, and other crimes." This in itself isn't a huge surprise since we've heard that before, but a note in the memo (and where else but Washington is an 81 page document a "memo"?) alludes to another memo in the following disturbing way

... our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.
See Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, and
William J. Haynes, II, General Counsel, Department of Defense, from
John C. Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Robert J. Delahunty,
Special Counsel, Re: Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States at 25 (Oct 23, 2001). (emphasis added)

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