Monday, September 15, 2008

Enough?

WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 9:  U.S. President Georg...Image by Getty Images via Daylife The President reauthorized the warrantless wire tapping program after Cheney's lawyer forged Gonzales's signature.

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"It has been widely reported that Bush executed the March 11 order with a blank space over the attorney general's signature line. That is not correct [15]. For reasons both symbolic and practical, the vice president's lawyer could not tolerate an empty spot where a mutinous subordinate should have signed. Addington typed a substitute signature line: "Alberto R. Gonzales."

"What Addington wrote for Bush that day was more transcendent than that. He drew up new language in which the president relied on his own authority to certify the program as lawful. Bush expressly overrode the Justice Department and any act of Congress or judicial decision that purported to constrain his power as commander in chief. Only Richard M. Nixon, in an interview after leaving the White House in disgrace, claimed authority so nearly unlimited"

The story starts here. It is shocking.

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