Commentary: A shining city on a hill can't have dungeons in its basements

By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers

It turns out that even the most paranoid among us were right to be afraid of what George W. Bush’s White House and Justice Department were up to in the days and months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

This week the Justice Department declassified and released two memos and seven so-called legal opinions that, taken together, informed President Bush that, as a wartime chief executive, he had unfettered dictatorial powers.