This has been said elsewhere but it bears repeating. From Balkinization:
Our President-- with his prevarications and euphemisms, like "alternative sets of procedures"-- has been unwilling to speak the truth about what he has done in the past and what he wishes to keep doing in the future. He wants to be free of Congressional and judicial oversight when he spies on people in the United States. He wants to hold, imprison, and detain people without letting them know the evidence used to condemn and convict them. He wants to let the CIA and other operatives continue to use abusive and inhumane interrogation methods. And he wants to make sure that those who have engaged in torture and inhumane treatment are never brought to justice or held responsible for their crimes-- including especially those who authorized these terrible practices.In short, this President wants legislation that will confirm that he is a law unto himself.
Damn straight. And we have to rely on the Democrats plus Warner, McCain and Graham to keep it from happening immediately. Then we have to elect Democrats in numbers great enough to win at least one half of Congress in order to block this man from doing what Jack Balkin describes.
The very nature of our country will change if he continues to get his way.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 15, 2006 12:01 AM | TrackBack