Bam!!! CIA Scores Direct Hit on the Unitary Executive!

[kpete]

Bam!!! CIA Scores Direct Hit on the Unitary Executive!
By: emptywheel Thursday December 13, 2007 7:14 am

At least that's what I take from this quote:

In the e-mail version of the Politico Playbook http://dyn.politico.com/playbook/ this morning, Mike Allen quotes “a senior administration official” lamenting that “they should have burned the NIE and kept the tapes.” The official was referring to the administration’s debacles with the intelligence community since the new NIE on Iran http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/03/nie-iran/ was released and the CIA revealed that it had destroyed videotaped interrogations http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/washington/06cnd-intel.html?ex=1354597200&en=9b07eb20244e3d62&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2007/12/13/bam-cia-scores-direct-hit-on-the-unitary-executive/

[tavalon]

1. Let's just bump this for your friends and mine, (not really, actually)

the wonderful spooks at the CIA.

[malaise]

2. K & R

Looks that way. We'll see.

[JackRiddler]

3. Hooray, someone at the CIA is against the Bush mob...

A monster created in the 1970s as a joint partnership with the CIA.

The "unitary executive" is an attempt to bring out into the open the lawlessness and arbitrary authority of secret government, as practiced for 60 years by various extra-constitutional institutions, with the CIA at their forefront.

[rockybelt]

4. They tried to burn the NIE

That's why the CIA released it.

[Krashkopf]

5. Yep!

I think that is exactly what happened. The people who pressured the Administration to release the NIE is a TRUE PATRIOTS and deserve the Congressional Medal of Freedom!

[Virginia Dare]

6. More bombshells to come too, I'm sure of it...n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Criminals fighting criminals. Hopefully, they won't settle their turf war.