Justice Memos Gave Bush Total Power

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 »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Mar. 3, 2009

This is part of the "stuff that keeps oozing out of the woodwork." What is it those informercials exclaim? Wait! There's more!

We should consider ourselves fortunate; the new memos gave Bush the authority to invade us.

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 “plenary” or unfettered.

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