The Obama administration Monday acknowledged nearly a decade of constitutional tampering by the Bush administration, releasing a number of Justice Department and CIA memos which identified and spoke of the blatant “just a piece of paper” attitude seen in the Bush administration’s reign.

Anti-terror memos which granted extra-constitutional search and seizure powers, and the acknowledgment of the destruction of 92 videotapes of interrogations and mistreatment of terrorist suspects that may have been considered torture.

The Justice Department’s memo — split in to nine legal opinions — which granted the rights to the Bush administration to determine that some constitutional rights would not apply to the “War on Terrorism,” as well as discussing the evasion of constitutional merits with regard to wiretapping U.S. citizens without the legitimization granted by a warrant.

Obama’s administration promised to turning over all related evidence and materials to Supreme Court judges, while making public all uncovered information, which would be legally prudent to disclose.

“First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully, the current campaign against terrorism may require even broader exercises of federal power domestically,” allegedly wrote Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo shortly after the 9/11 attacks, according to a number of press sources with immediate access to this information.

President Obama has moved to eliminate much of the mistreatment and mishandling of evidence and constitutional rights, promising to pull military from Iraq, close Guantanamo Bay and eliminate the “intensive interrogation program” which many have deemed illegal and extraconstitutional at the CIA.

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