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Conscience of a Conservative by possibly noteworthy at 11:16 am EST, Nov 17, 2007 |
I was positively certain that this article had been recommended back in September, but now I cannot find any trace of it. Goldsmith says he remains convinced of the seriousness of the terrorist threat and the need to take aggressive action to combat it, but he believes, quoting his conservative Harvard Law colleague Charles Fried, that the Bush administration “badly overplayed a winning hand.” In retrospect, Goldsmith told me, Bush “could have achieved all that he wanted to achieve, and put it on a firmer foundation, if he had been willing to reach out to other institutions of government.” Instead, Goldsmith said, he weakened the presidency he was so determined to strengthen. “I don’t think any president in the near future can have the same attitude toward executive power, because the other institutions of government won’t allow it,” he said softly. “The Bush administration has borrowed its power against future presidents.”
Can you find the original thread? All I can find is the PBS special, which aired more than a month later. |
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RE: Conscience of a Conservative by Decius at 12:09 pm EST, Nov 17, 2007 |
possibly noteworthy wrote: I was positively certain that this article had been recommended back in September, but now I cannot find any trace of it.
I'm not sure. I posted on this subject but I didn't directly link this specific article. |
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RE: Conscience of a Conservative by possibly noteworthy at 12:47 pm EST, Nov 17, 2007 |
Decius wrote: possibly noteworthy wrote: I was positively certain that this article had been recommended back in September, but now I cannot find any trace of it.
I'm not sure. I posted on this subject but I didn't directly link this specific article.
I guess that's probably as close as it got at the time. The Rosen article is cited in the second comment on the Wired blog post which you linked as "on the other hand." |
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