Cheney then expressed a frustration that was entirely reasonable. He pointed out that the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel had written a memo to support the program in 2001 and that the attorney general had repeatedly certified the program’s legality in the two and one-half years since. How can you now switch positions on something so important? he asked. I sympathized with him and told him so, but I added that the 2001 opinion was so bad as to be “facially invalid.” I said, “No lawyer could rely upon it.” From the windowsill came Addington’s cutting voice: “I’m a lawyer and I
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