Dangerous politcians to be wary of: Cass Sunstein

According to the information gathered by A. Higgins, Cass Sunstein (left) has simultaneously defended legal inaction against the many crimes of the Bush administration and at the same time advocated for the persecution of conspiracy theorists. His profile as defender of the Bush administration is also scrutinized by Washington's Blog.

Per Wikipedia he now holds the charge of Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, one among 39 'czar' departments, which is in charge of reviewing collections of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act and developing and overseeing the implementation of government-wide policies in the areas of information technology, information policy, privacy, and statistical policy. In other words: he is in charge of overseeing the Internet.

In regard to the so-called conspiracy theories (a wide array of unproven speculations but also relatively proven facts, specially regarding the so-called war on terror) he is concerned by how the diffusion of these (obviously he's thinking in the 9-11 Truth movement, not UFOs) could undermine the government promoted war on terror (whose results are more institutionalized terror and less safety and freedoms for all, either in the USA, West Asia or anywhere else). In this sense he advocates by secret service infiltration of chat rooms, forums and in general the Internet in order to manipulate the facts, cast doubts, etc. (psy-ops).

He also advocates for manipulating independent researchers by providing them with (false?) information and prodding them from behind the scenes.  He acknowledges that this must be done subtly or otherwise the government's credibility would be again questioned.

Sunstein has also argued for the legal framework to be defined not by judges but the Presidential cabinet, what sounds to a direct attack against the principle of checks and balances and evidences his authoritarian tendencies.

He also defended the right of former US President George W. Bush to appoint military commissions without Congress approval, another strike against division of power. He is obviously a hardcore presidentialist or to put in US political language: monarchist. He'd be happy in Putin's Russia, I guess.