On June 7th, Michael S. Greco, the president of the American Bar Association, gave a speech at the Commonwealth Club of California entitled "Living Within the Law: Next Steps in the War on Terror".
This landmark, must read speech, podcasted here and transcribed here, is an utterly devastating indictement of the Bush administration.
Now understand. The ABA is the world's largest voluntary professional organization with a membership of over 400,000 lawyers and judges. And Mr. Greco speaks for them. This is huge. The Corporate Media, of course, ignored it completely.
So what do you call 400,000 lawyers (and judges) speaking out against the abuses of the Bush administration? I call it a Good Start.
Highlights of the speech over the jump...
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