"Top officials in the Administration dealt with FISA the way they dealt with other laws they didn't like: they blew through them in secret based on flimsy legal opinions that they guarded closely so no one could question the legal basis of the operations." --Jack Goldsmith, Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, 2003-04
"I think it's more than an inference at this point, which is one of the reasons there's a call for a special prosecutor. There are at least six identifiable crimes here, from obstruction of justice to obstruction of Congress, perjury, conspiracy, false statements, and what is often forgotten: the crime of torturing suspects. If that crime was committed it was a crime that would conceivably be ordered by the president himself, only the president can order those types of special treatments or interrogation techniques."--Johnathan Turley, GWU Law Professor on CNN discussing White House involvement in destroying CIA videos of torture.