"Publicly Rebuked" is Just a Fancy Way of Saying "Bitch-Slapped"


The Harvard Law School Class of 1982 has a message for their less-than-esteemed alum Abu:

...it has been with dismay that we have watched your cavalier handling of our freedoms time and again...you have...used pretextual rationales and strained readings to justify an ever-expaning executive authority. Witness your White House memos sweeping aside the Geneva Conventions to justify torture, endangering our own servicemen and women; witness your advice to the President effectively reading Habeas Corpus out of our constitutional protections; witness you support of presidential statements claiming inherent power to wiretap American citizens without warrants...and witness your dismissive explanation of the troubling firings of numerous U.S. Attorneys, and their replacement with others more "loyal" to the President's politics, as merely "an overblown personnel matter." In these and other actions, we see a pattern. As a recent editorial put it, your approach has come to symbolize "disdain for the separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law."