The news today that President Bush acted to block an internal Justice Department probe relating to the NSA’s domestic spying operations is both a bigger and more complicated a story than one would think, given the space it will probably be given in tomorrow’s papers. In sum, it’s an example of how even arcane tools of oversight can be subverted by the Executive Office of the President.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=182860