King George“Some legal questions are hard-This one is not" The Progressive

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Published on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by The Progressive
King George
Editorial

“Some legal questions are hard. This one is not. The President’s authorizing of NSA to spy on Americans is blatantly unlawful.”—Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor
There comes a time when the nakedness of the emperor can no longer be denied. Such a time is now.

George Bush’s policy of eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without a warrant proves he has placed himself above the law. Add this to the long list of other impeachable offenses—lying the country into war, torturing prisoners, exporting detainees for torture, paying columnists to propagandize the American public—that George W. Bush has committed, and put it at the top.

The President swears an oath of office that he will uphold the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws of the land.But he has been brazenly flouting the law that prohibits domestic spying without a warrant.

When The New York Times revealed on December 16 (after sitting on the story for a year and then omitting details at the request of Administration officials!) that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to monitor “the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years,” I expected Bush to deny it or to say he was going to review the policy. Instead, he has been vehemently defending that policy, citing both his authority under the Constitution as commander in chief and Congress’s authorization to go after Al Qaeda.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0131-23.htm

[BOSSHOG]

1. Placing himself above the law

- when he deserted his military unit to avoid a drug test
- when he profited from insider trading at Harken

and "conservatives" just look the other way when he continues his pitiful existence in the WH raping and pillaging knowing that, to an extent, his base will protect him from accountability.