OK, This is Just Scary

Some of Bush's executive power legal opinions have been released.

They are so extreme that started walking it back in October of 2008, and they effectively repealed them on January 15, 2009.

The short version of the opinions is that, "All your constitution are belong to us."

We are talking about suspension of the 4th amendment and 1st amendment completely.

Why John Yoo still has a law license, much less a teaching position at UC Berkeley, is astonishing.

[updated]
As Glenn Greenwald notes:

The essence of this document was to declare that George Bush had the authority (a) to deploy the U.S. military inside the U.S., (b) directed at foreign nationals and U.S. citizens alike; (c) unconstrained by any Constitutional limits, including those of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments. It was nothing less than an explicit decree that, when it comes to Presidential power, the Bill of Rights was suspended, even on U.S. soil and as applied to U.S. citizens. And it wasn't only a decree that existed in theory; this secret proclamation that the Fourth Amendment was inapplicable to what the document calls "domestic military operations" was, among other things, the basis on which Bush ordered the NSA, an arm of the U.S. military, to turn inwards and begin spying -- in secret and with no oversight -- on the electronic communications (telephone calls and emails) of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.

And the villagers inside the Beltway still see no need for an investigation.