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Extreme American view Former Law Adviser Speaks Out on Bush Top of Form Bottom of Form * SIGN IN TO E-MAIL OR SAVE THIS * PRINT * SINGLE PAGE * SHARE o DIGG o FACEBOOK o NEWSVINE o PERMALINK By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: September 11, 2007 In October 2003 Jack Goldsmith, a legal scholar with sterling conservative credentials, was hired to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the president and the attorney general about the legality of presidential actions. As he was briefed on counterterrorism measures the Bush administration had adopted in the wake of 9/11, Mr. Goldsmith says he was alarmed to discover that many of those policies "rested on severely damaged legal foundations," that the legal opinions that supported these counterterrorism operations were, in his view, "sloppily reasoned, overbroad, and incautious in asserting extraordinary constitutional authorities on behalf of the president." Skip to next paragraph THE TERROR PRESIDENCY Law and Judgment Inside the Bush...

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