Obama's Justice Nominees signal end of Bush Terror Tactics

In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll back Bush administration counterterrorism policies authorizing harsh interrogation techniques, warrantless spying and indefinite detentions of terrorism suspects.

The most startling shift was Obama's pick of Indiana University law professor Dawn Johnsen to take charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, the unit that's churned out the legal opinions that provided a foundation for expanding President George W. Bush's national security powers.
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David Ogden, a top Justice Department official during the Clinton administration, as deputy attorney general, the No. 2 figure under attorney general nominee Eric Holder.

_ Elena Kagan, the dean of the Harvard University Law School and a former Clinton White House aide, as solicitor general. She'd be the first woman to hold the post.

_ Tom Perrelli, counsel to Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno from 1997 to 1999, as the associate attorney general who oversees civil matters.

Obama said that he hoped that the four appointees would restore "integrity, depth of experience and tenacity" to the lead federal law-enforcement agency, which has been battered by scandal.

"This is a superb set of appointments," said Dellinger, who headed the Office of Legal Counsel from 1993-96 and then served as U.S. solicitor general. "These four are highly accomplished in the profession and bring a stature to the job that will allow them to say no to the president when no is the correct answer."
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Elena Kagan as solicitor general representing the U.S. at the Supreme Court is truly awesome to me. It makes a difference who presents the United States' case to the SCOTUS...and for 8 years, the arguments have been wholy the United States against the People.

Terror and wiretaps were soooo important to us just a while ago.
Much more important than what the SG had to say about anything.
No? :shrug:

Obama is a right winger parading around as a Democrat and pulling the wool over everyone's eyes. :eyes:

Guess it makes sense; to simply act like nothing else is happening other than what those who complain say is going on. :shrug:

gee, and I was having so much fun doing that, too! :sarcasm:

ignored, while others get 200 - 300 replies. Oh well.........

At how few replies this is getting. And equally shocked at how many replies the thread about Rahm Emmanual running shit is getting... :eyes:

:applause:

First woman to hold this post! :)