Fear & Loathing at DOJ: “Kind of weirdly in physical danger.”

Is it only the fevered left that believes BushCheneyCo uses its vast illegal warrantless eavesdropping to spy on Americans, probably on their political opponents? Nope, and not only (via Digby):

JANE MAYER: People told me, "You can’t imagine what it was like inside the White House during this period." There was such an atmosphere of intimidation. And when the lawyers, some of these lawyers tried to stand up to this later, they felt so endangered in some ways that, at one point, two of the top lawyers from the Justice Department developed this system of talking in codes to each other because they thought they might be being wiretapped. And they even felt-

BILL MOYERS: By their own government.

JANE MAYER: By their own government. They felt like they might be kind of weirdly in physical danger. They were actually scared to stand up to Vice President Cheney.

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