Happy Square Root Day

This is the only post of the day since I'm trying to digest the post-9/11 legal memos of Johnnie Yoo. The memos are now on the DOJ website for the wonder of us all. Progressive bloggers who fear that the Obama Administration may succumb to the Bush rationale in the war against terrorism might want to hold their fire for a while. Some comments on the draconian measures advocated by Yoo neglect using the Rosetta Stone of these legal opinions. Almost all the opinions from the military's right to search and seizure to curbs on the freedom of the press as well as the right to torture stem from the rather crackpot consitutional notion of the theory of the unitary executive.

Originally, an administrative theory about the full extent of the President's powers over independent organs of the executive branch developed during the Nixon Administration, it later became a full-fledged constitutional theory supported by a very small, microscopic group of conservatives. Unfortunately for the rest of us, this group ended up writing the legal guidelines for the Bush Administration. Almost all the looniness of these memos derive from a rather loony constitutional theory. Almost all the memos legitimizes unconstitutional--to the rest of Planet Earth's population--actions by the President.

Freepers have denounced these "secret" memos as another form of treason by the Obama Administration. They might want to reconsider who the real traitors are in this case. People like John Yoo and David Addington did more damage to the United States than even the effective KGB moles.