It was GREENWALD who called out Bush and Cheney on ILLEGAL N.S.A. Spying back in 2007!

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70. Wow! Maybe *that's* why Greenwald wasn't even a reporter in 2005.

Which explains his lack of journalism. For example, what his opinion on what's worse than a racist he wrote in the New York Times the other day really gets them really, really, really, really, REALLY, mad.

Nomination Ignores War Crimes

Glenn Greenwald is a columnist for The Guardian, a former constitutional lawyer and the author of four books, most recently "With Liberty and Justice for Some."

President Obama has expended extraordinary efforts to protect from accountability all Bush-era officials responsible for torture, rendition and warrantless eavesdropping, programs that numerous human rights groups have insisted constitute war crimes and violations of U.S. criminal law.

The result is that support for those war crimes no longer carries any real stigma. By blocking any form of criminal and civil accountability for these acts, President Obama has transformed what were once universally unspeakable and taboo beliefs into little more than respectable, garden-variety political disagreements.

The president's nomination on Monday of John O. Brennan, a Bush-era C.I.A. official, to head the C.I.A. illustrates how complete this disturbing process now is. In late 2008, when Brennan was rumored to be Obama's leading choice as C.I.A. director, a major controversy erupted because of Brennan's overt support for Bush's programs of rendition and torture.

Brennan's pro-torture-and-rendition views were clear and amply documented. In 2007, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker described Brennan as a supporter of the "C.I.A.’s interrogation and detention program.''

In a Dec. 5, 2005, "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" appearance, Brennan admitted he was "intimately familiar now over the past decade with the cases of rendition" -- the practice used by the Bush administration to abduct terrorism suspects and send them to other countries to be tortured -- and praised rendition as "an absolutely vital tool." In a November 2007 interview with Harry Smith of CBS News, Brennan defended what he euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation tactics" (other than waterboarding, which he opposed) by claiming that "a lot of information has come out from these interrogation procedures that the agency has in fact used against the real hard-core terrorists. It has saved lives."

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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/07/the-right-or-wrong-experience-for-the-job/by-nominating-john-brennan-obama-is-ignoring-war-crimes

So there. Now he's a Constitutional scholar, declaring war on everyone and everything that doesn't do exactly what he wants, when he says it. Oops. That's another Constitutional scholar. The one I'm supposed to agree with in a democracy.