Let's get these nasty White House tactics out in the open, shall we?

(thanks to think progress...)

this is the way a totalitarian state operates... and this just happens to be one of the stories that's actually made it to the light of day... how many more haven't...?

[D]uring today’s White House press conference, a reporter cited comments by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — a former JAG and an opponent of the Bush’s detainee policies — claiming that the White House had placed extreme pressure on the military lawyers to sign a statement, and that the lawyers had refused to sign the initial statement crafted for them by the White House:

REPORTER: Sen. Graham is telling reporters on Capitol Hill that the White House had them in a meeting for five hours last night and tried to force them to sign a prepared statement and he said reading this JAG letter they ended up writing leaves total ambiguity on interpretation, this is Sen. Lindsey Graham. What’s your response to that?

Snow acknowledged “they were asked to write a letter” but said, “if you start going into who asked whom to write letters, I don’t know.”

so, you're a military lawyer... you're surrounded by high-level staffers from the office of your commander-in-chief... they're putting intense pressure on you to support what that commander-in-chief is trying to push through congress... what do you do...?

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