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That Information Might Have Been A Little More Useful To Us Three Years Ago

May 15, 2007

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10:39 pm

Daniel Larison

So do you suppose that the story that Ashcroft, Mueller and top Justice officials threatened to resign to protest the illegality of the NSA domestic surveillance program (you know, the one that the President has “inherent powers” to authorise) will have any effect on the standard refrain from administration defenders about the original legality of this program?  No, I didn’t think so, either.

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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