In no particular order: 1. Foreign born Viet Dinh
2. Foreign born John Yoo
More on John Yoo from tompaine.com:
The 20-page response came from John C. Yoo, a 34-year-old Bush appointee with a glittering résumé and a reputation as perhaps the most intellectually aggressive among a small group of legal scholars who had challenged what they saw as the United States' excessive deference to international law.
On Sept. 21, 2001, Mr. Yoo wrote that the question was how the Constitution's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure might apply if the military used "deadly force in a manner that endangered the lives of United States citizens."
Mr. Yoo listed an inventory of possible operations: shooting down a civilian airliner hijacked by terrorists; setting up military checkpoints inside an American city; employing surveillance methods more sophisticated than those available to law enforcement; or using military forces "to raid or attack dwellings where terrorists were thought to be, despite risks that third parties could be killed or injured by exchanges of fire."
Mr. Yoo noted that those actions could raise constitutional issues, but said that in the face of devastating terrorist attacks, "the government may be justified in taking measures which in less troubled conditions could be seen as infringements of individual liberties."
If the president decided the threat justified deploying the military inside the country, he wrote, then "we think that the Fourth Amendment should be no more relevant than it would be in cases of invasion or insurrection."
3. Dual Citizenship (His grandfather was a Jew from Russia, Chertoff was born an Israeli citizen by virtue of his mother's Israeli citizenship) Michael Chertoff wrote the blue print
4. A Florida state senator's son, Sen Bob Graham, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote sections of the bill dealing with foreign intelligence.
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