They're Not Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies"

They're big lies, the LA Times's Rosa Brooks writes. The lies the Bush admin's lawyers concocted to give him "power amounting to virtual dictatorship," according to Ms. Brooks (and me). The most interesting part of the piece are the last 3 paragraphs:

But don't think we're out of the woods. As Hitler demonstrated, some small part of the most "impudent lies" will always remain and stick. Big lies leave little lies in their wake, changing the political discourse in enduring, difficult-to-detect ways.

And that's the challenge we now face: tracing the barely visible effects of the Bush administration's now-repudiated big lies -- through our legal system, our constitutional system, our foreign policy -- and undoing all the damage.

It will take a generation.