The Justice Department disagrees, and has asked its Office of Legal Counsel to prepare an elaborate memorandum asserting that presidentially ordered assassinations comply with due process despite the absence of judicial review.
As for Mr. Stein's memorandum asserting that money was gone, Mr. Hassanein said: "He's trying to say, 'I'm a victim.' " Four people close to Ms. Holland said they have been questioned by investigators from either the F.B.I. or the special inspector general's office.
In presenting the military's complaints, the memorandum asserts that "inappropriate detainees" had been housed in an isolation unit at Abu Ghraib "without the approval" of the military's Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center there, which oversaw that cellblock.
The memorandum asserted that Mr. Obama's sweeping victory was, at least partly, the fruit of Mr. Dean's signature strategy to spend the money to establish a Democratic presence in all 50 states.
The May 9 memorandum asserted that genocide was occurring: It appears that, in addition to the random massacre of Tutsis by Hutu militias and individuals, there is an organized, parallel effort of genocide being implemented by the Army to destroy the leadership of the Tutsi community.
A council memorandum asserted that the EU was right to help given that the closures had been pushed through during these countries' negotiations to join the EU: "Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia undertook to close and subsequently decommission the abovementioned nuclear reactors.
Mr. Holder was referring to once secret Justice Department memorandums asserting that certain interrogation techniques, like stripping prisoners naked, keeping them awake for long periods, slamming them into walls and subjecting them to waterboarding, would not violate antitorture laws.
At work, the president has often sided with Mr. Holder on close calls — for instance, the decision to release Bush-era memorandums asserting that interrogators for the Central Intelligence Agency could lawfully employ harsh techniques despite antitorture laws.
The administration has been trying its best to establish a modern equivalent to the divine right of kings, with legal memorandums asserting that George II's "inherent" powers allow him to ignore federal laws prohibiting torture and war crimes.
Officials who take an action based on the office's assurances that it would be lawful are essentially safe from prosecution, giving the agency an extraordinary power that came under sharp scrutiny during the Bush administration after it issued secret memorandums asserting that the president, as commander in chief, could override statutes restricting domestic surveillance and torture.
One section of the memorandum, "Winning the Global Warming Debate," asserts that many voters believe there is a lack of consensus about global warming among scientists.
