[libstripper]

Newspeak seems to think our hired help ought to set policy for the Justice Department instead of what the duly elected President, the boss we elected to supervise and discipline the hired help properly orders them to do. This article shows the incredible arrogance and gall of a bunch of unelected bureaucrats who just can't get over the idea of the elected President lawfully giving them orders they don't like. Having lost every election since 2000 they and their soul brothers at State and the CIA are now trying to pull a coup against President Bush in the middle of a war for very existence. It's treason.

[penowa]

I have to agree with your summary of the article. It seems that a former Democrat congress thought they chopped the power of the executive branch down to manageable size in their estimation. Any Democrat president who tries to push beyond the boundaries set by them is ignored by the press and congress. Any Republican president will find himself in a battle with the Democrats and his own executive bureaucracy, and the press will make it into a public event in an attempt to undercut him.

I thought this quote from Flanigan said it all in regard to Addington's "transgressions."

But Addington "usually had the facts, the law and the precedents on his side," says Flanigan.