Comments on: Obama’s DOJ Nominees through the Lens of Bush’s OLC

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:18:31 +0000

After years of reading former SG’s argument transcripts, the rhetoric of an academic executive might be refreshing, though Clement was given some inverted propositions to espouse. He can heal again at Gulcfac; their website is a desultory effort, though often substantial when active. Panetta may be an interesting choice, ever the centrist, and grew noticeably during prior Democratic administration; guaranteed to be way center of ideologGoss’s stovepiped technique, one of the difficult parts of the bureaucracy to oversee; I wonder what his assessment of Predator with missles will be, or his policy on TreatAsIfClassified, or if he will document the trail from the Cleveland speech, rose garden speech, to the autoexculpation proliferation that ensued throughout the cabinet and demicabinet. I foresee competence, lots of intellectual drive. I think the local archive is on the old computer, so have not found the article, but I believe Panetta was known for splendid excess of personal frugality, dwelling in a three bachelor apartment when serving in the lower chamber, low wages and all that.

By: CasualObserver

CasualObserver — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:14:02 +0000

Neither is Rockefeller. They’d better watch out–if they really piss Jay off, he’ll write a hot letter and mail it to his safe.

By: jdmckay

jdmckay — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:58:40 +0000

Panetta high on my effective-w/integrity-politician-meter

seems like DiFi’s not happy about Panetta… go figure.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:31:11 +0000

Thanks for linking to that–I had intended to go find it. Now I don’t have to!!

By: jdmckay

jdmckay — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:04:54 +0000

change that some of us can believe in.

Fully agree.

Panetta high on my effective-w/integrity-politician-meter… real high. Although I can’t for the life of me imagine why he’d take that job: I can’t think of a more thankless task.

By: skdadl

skdadl — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:18:13 +0000

Johnsen was also legal director for NARAL in the late eighties, early nineties (sorry if I’m repeating anyone else). She certainly sounds like … change that some of us can believe in.

By: FormerFed

FormerFed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:55:54 +0000

Scary stuff.

By: jdmckay

jdmckay — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:30:22 +0000

Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members

Geezus…

scribe @ 12

How about just issuing Skype and webcams, or making them available to deployed soldiers and their families?

Too obvious, would require common sense.

Oh, right. That would not yield big contracts for MIC contractors.

To be fair, it’s only a proposed contract, not ongoing project.

Perhaps OB’s top-to-bottom review of gov waste will (hint hint) get his investigators attention.

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:03:49 +0000

Thanks ew.

digg

By: scribe

scribe — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:51:05 +0000

Why dontcha all go read one of Johnsen’s law review articles (25 page .pdf) - from this past spring - and then come back and talk amongst yourselves….