Glenn Greenwald tells us:
"Last night, Keith Olbermann -- who has undoubtedly been one of the most swooning and often-uncritical admirers of Barack Obama of anyone in the country (behavior for which I rather harshly criticized him in the past) -- devoted the first two segments of his show to emphatically lambasting Obama and Eric Holder's DOJ for the story I wrote about on Monday: namely, the Obama administration's use of the radical Bush/Cheney state secrets doctrine and -- worse still -- a brand new claim of "sovereign immunity" to insist that courts lack the authority to decide whether the Bush administration broke the law in illegally spying on Americans.
"The fact that Keith Olbermann, an intense Obama supporter, spent the first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing) some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is the conduct of the Obama DOJ here."
Yes, Mr. Olbermann might get back some portion of the credibility that he lost last year when he actively concocted a ridiculous defense of then-candidate Obama's support for Telecom Amnesty (as I discussed back in June). Mr. Olbermann certainly has changed his tune (or toon, if you'd rather).
Anyway, below is a video clip of Olbermann taking our president to task. After the jump is Olbermann's interview of constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley, who does likewise.
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