President Barack Obama authorizes the Department of Justice to release four previously classified memos from the Office of Legal Counsel written between 2002 and 2005 that authorized CIA torture techniques including waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and confinement in coffin-sized …
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The Justice Department’s torture authorization memo represents the institutional culmination of WHIG’s constitutional crisis precedent establishment, demonstrating how systematic executive deception creates legal frameworks enabling executive immunity from constitutional constraints and …
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The Federalist Society, flagship legal institution of Powell Memorandum judicial capture strategy, establishes systematic coordination with WHIG operations to provide legal justification infrastructure for crisis-accelerated implementation of executive power expansion objectives. This coordination …
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