If history gets this recent era right, future textbooks will have
to show that the US narrowly averted a carefully planned but thorough
and unmistakable conspiracy to subvert the rule of law and the process
of democracy from 2001-2008. For three years, since writing End of America,
I have been arguing that the Bush team sought irretrievably to subvert
our liberty.
As I detailed over the weekend,
the Obama administration -- in the case brought by two American lawyers
and their charity-client claiming that their conversations were
illegally intercepted by the Bush administration -- has announced that
it intends to try to appeal, yet again, in order to prevent the court
from hearing the lawsuit. On Friday, the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals rejected Obama's request to stay the District Judge's Order,
which had held that it will review a classified documen
