{"id":6843,"date":"2009-01-23T16:35:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2009-01-23T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T00:08:34","slug":"obama-nominates-nsa-wiretap-critic-for-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Obama Nominates NSA Wiretap Critic for DoJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/22\/obama-picks-critic-of-warrantless-wiretapping-for-slot-at-justice-dept\/\">Tea leaves?&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">President Obama announced the nomination on Thursday of a former government lawyer, who had been critical of the legal rationale for the Bush administration&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program, to lead the Justice Department&#8217;s national security division.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer, David Kris, served as a senior Justice Department official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations from 2000 to 2003, and is widely respected in Washington for his knowledge of intelligence law.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn late 2005, following the public disclosure of the N.S.A. wiretapping program approved by President Bush, Mr. Kris wrote a 23-page legal analysis that described as &#8220;weak&#8221; and likely unsupportable some of the Bush administration&#8217;s key legal arguments in justifying the program.<\/p>\n<p>And when he was still at the Justice Department, he advised his boss, who was at the time Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, not to sign a mysterious batch of wiretapping warrants &#8220;\u201d which grew out of the program &#8220;\u201d because intelligence officials would not reveal how the information in the wiretaps was obtained.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea leaves?&#8230; President Obama announced the nomination on Thursday of a former government lawyer, who had been critical of the legal rationale for the Bush administration&#8217;s warrantless wiretapping program, to lead the Justice Department&#8217;s national security division. The lawyer, David Kris, served as a senior Justice Department official in both the Clinton and Bush administrations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,405,223,61,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-dept-of-justice","category-nsa","category-rights-and-freedoms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}