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Juan Cole wins the "well-aimed understatement of the week" prize, commenting on Bush's illegal wiretapping scheme:
[T]he defense [Attorney General Michael] Mukasey suggests for telecom companies that illegally turned over consumer records to government officials who had no warrant to request them, is that they were "following orders." I think there were some trials where that excuse was disallowed.
[T]he defense [Attorney General Michael] Mukasey suggests for telecom companies that illegally turned over consumer records to government officials who had no warrant to request them, is that they were "following orders." I think there were some trials where that excuse was disallowed.