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tweeted by, Ezra Klein ?@ezraklein 6m
John Roberts will appoint every single surveillance judge until the day he dies or retires: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/did-you-know-john-roberts-is-also-chief-justice-of-the-nsas-surveillance-state/
bobduca
(1,763 posts)appointing the secret judges to make sure that the secret wiretaps are secretly legal.
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)the Third Reich, stumbling upon Hans Globke and then turning away from the whole matter in disgust at my descent into Godwin turf:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke
Thanks for the 'baby blue eyes' which got the whole thing started.
FWIW, Globke may not even be the most appropriate analogue, as his duties more closely approximate those of John Yoo.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts). . . it's a star chamber, no matter how you fashion it.