The response of the nominee to become Attorney General: The President has "the authority to defend the country." In one swoop. the Attorney General conceded to the President nearly unlimited power. just as long as he finds a lawyer willing to stuff his actions into the boundless rubric of "defending the country"-unlimi ted power to defend the Nation. to protect us as one man sees fit. even if that means listening to our phone calls without a warrant. even if it means holding some of us indefinitely. That is contempt for the rule of law. So this is very much about tortureabout enhanced interrogation measures and waterboarding. It is also about extraordinary renditionoutsourced torture of men this administration would prefer we didnt even know exist. But now we do know. One was a Syrian immigrant raising his family in Canada. He wrote computer code for a company called MathWorks and was planning to start his own tech business. On a trip through New Yorks JFK Airport. he was arrested by U.S. federal agents.
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