Obama Transition Team Pushing for Secret Legal Memos
The department has reservations about granting the team’s request to review classified legal opinions related to secret CIA and National Security Agency programs.
The Justice official said the department was reluctant to provide the opinions to Obama’s team without permission from the two intelligence agencies whose activities they address. At the roundtable, Mukasey said OLC opinions are issued at the request of other agencies with their “own equity or interest in the information.”
The opinions, some of which have been released to Congress in redacted form, contain the legal rationale of the NSA’s warrantless spying program and the CIA’s detention and interrogation policies, among other intelligence initiatives.
Mukasey said last week that some documents may not be made available to Obama’s staff until they take their oath of office.
SOURCE: LAW
LINKS:
(1) Chicagobama: Corrupt to the Core
(2) Obama-Blago Cover-up begins
(3) Press scrambling to cover Obama’s rear end
So the intelligence services want a whitewash coverup of their activities? That seems a bit more worrisome that a crooked governor out in Illinois.
Should be an interesting time for our intel bozos. Strategic leaks helped the media with their Bushfail narrative, but now that the CIA has a boss more to their elitist liking, they have to be fretting about the consequences of actually doing their jobs. This, I believe, is called “irony.”
I see it that the Obama team would like to get their hands on the wiretapping tapes on the Blagojevich scandal! I think that there will be impeachment hearing on Barack within 4 years!
He will be forced to flee to Kenya!