Although they shed new light on the secret authorizations of the Bush administration, the Justice Department memos released last Friday are, to a certain extent, just the tip of the iceberg. According to an assessment by ProPublica, there remain at least another three dozen documents still kept under lock and key by the U.S. government. The list spans a four-year period, from late September 2001 to mid 2005, and most of the still top-secret documents were authored by the key legal architects of President Bush’s war on terrorism, including John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Jack Goldsmith, and Steven Bradbury, and they reveal that the Bush administration followed the philosophy best expressed by Richard Nixon: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”