In the period after 9/11 in question, I do not find these cardinal sins.
He's joking right? Surely a highly paid and respected journalist like Sullivan realizes that Bush was pushing for warrantless wiretapping beginning in February of 2001? Warantless surveillance has been a priority for Bush from the moment he took office. 9/11 merely provided a fig leaf to hide behind.
And, as one of Sullivan's readers notes, "the period after 9/11" is a pretty imprecise standard. The surveillance techniques in question continued for 6 years after the attacks. Pretending that the Bush administration engaged in unconstitutional surveillance only in the after-math of the 9/11 attacks is to ignore all known facts and reality itself.
They were wiping their asses with the 4th Amendment from the moment they took office.
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