Lawyers for George W. Bush’s Justice Department asserted that the President had unlimited powers to prosecute the “war on terror” on American soil and could ignore constitutional rights, including First Amendment freedoms of speech and the press and Fourth Amendment requirements for search warrants, according to nine secret memos just released. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The legal memos "authorizing" violation of the constitution are leaking into view gradually. Leopold includes some background.
This is part of the "stuff that keeps oozing out of the woodwork." What is it those informercials exclaim? Wait! There's more!
In effect, the newly released memos make clear that – as some critics have long maintained – President Bush viewed his post 9/11 powers as Commander in Chief as ... More »
I think the importance of these memos is limited, now that the president and the authors are out of power. They will be fine evidence if Bybee and others are prosecuted criminally, which I hope happens, but the memos were clearly wrong and they are clearly ineffective.
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