Comments on: Senator Reveals Secret Bush Legal Opinions

Intelligence Committee Member Tells Of Administration Memos Used To Justify Warrantless Wiretaps

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"The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President%u2019s authority under Article II."

Which means of course that the president thinks he has whatever powers he says he has. A law unto himself. That''s not a democracy, it''s a dictatorship. George W. Bush believes he is an absolute ruler with absolute powers. A dictator.

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To Bush and cronies the Constitution and the law are merely minor obstacle''s to be gotten around or just plain ignored. They have zero respect for the rule of law or for what this nation really stands for. Instead they attempt to rule like a monarchy or dictatorship, rather then to lead like real Americans. They are the most un-American regime ever to hold power in US history.

[forthepeopl1]

it''s so funny that they think that this all that has been destoyed by the bush adminastration(cheney) everyday they do it. and for our congressman and woman and senators to be suprised that this happen is killing me i cant stop laughing, boy do we have a stupid and so blind goverment

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a persistent critic of the Bush administration''s anti-terrorism policies, was to speak on the Senate floor about the destruction of the interrogation tapes, and its not having been revealed for some two years. At least one Republican lawmaker has also expressed dismay over the destruction of the tapes.

The CIA''s destruction of the tapes came in the midst of Congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to current and former government officials.
White House officials declined this morning to comment on the matter.

"This matter must be promptly and fully investigated," said Harman, now head of the Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence and terrorism risk assessment. She noted that in early 2003 she received "a highly classified briefing" on CIA interrogation practices from the agency''s general counsel, and that she had expressed "serious concerns" in a letter to the lawyer afterward.

"I call for my letter of February 2003, which was never responded to and has been in the CIA''s files ever since, to be declassified," the Congresswoman said.

[bareemperor]

Yeah, we all know Bu$h is a crook...
The REAL news today is this:

''State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard, under scrutiny for his brother''s link to the Blackwater security firm, has decided to resign, U.S. officials said on Friday.--

Krongard last month recused himself from Blackwater oversight after saying in a congressional hearing that his brother A.B. ''Buzzy'' Krongard, a former executive director of the CIA, had attended a meeting of Blackwater''s advisory board.

Krongard had begun the hearing by denying the "ugly rumors" that his brother was associated with the company, which is under investigation for a September 16 shooting incident in Baghdad in which 17 Iraqis were killed.''

Tie it together - Blackwater and the greedy ''put options'' of 9/11...

Seems the Krongard family may have known 9/11 was to occur and bet millions that the involved airlines stock would plummet...

insiders/CIA/Halliburton...