These memos read as advising how close one can skirt to the law and still not be guilty," says Douglas A. Johnson, executive director of Minneapolis's Center for Victims of Torture. "They're what we expect to read out of an Enron memo or a mob-lawyer memo, but not advice to the president of the United States."
Well, actually, I kinda thought clarification of what's permissable and what ain't was the whole point, Mr. Johnson. How do you know if you don't ask?