Friday, June 17, 2011

hypOcrisy

NYT: Obama overruled top Pentagon, DOJ lawyers on Libya war powers « Hot Air: "The Times is treating it as the major story that it is, but under a Republican president (especially one named, say, George Bush) it would be a scandal of nuclear proportions. What they’re basically saying here, without actually saying it, is that the president’s own lawyers told him that the Libya war is illegal and he responded by looking around for other lawyers who’d tell him what he wanted to hear."