So, the news breaks yesterday that the president now has the authority to set aside the law- never mind what that constitution of yours says.

Today the NY Times has this:

Another memorandum obtained by The Times indicates that most of the administration’s top lawyers, with the exception of those at the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, approved of the Justice Department’s position that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the war in Afghanistan. In addition, that memorandum, dated Feb. 2, 2002, noted that lawyers for the Central Intelligence Agency had asked for an explicit understanding that the administration’s public pledge to abide by the spirit of the conventions did not apply to its operatives.
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When staffers are hired into this administration I imagine their instructions from the top are to say one thing, do another. Repeat.