Bad party line
Slate
by Bruce Ackerman
09/18/06
Disdain for the rule of law is infectious. It began in Guantanamo, but it is now invading the American heartland. The Bush administration sees the wiretapping scandal at the National Security Agency as an opportunity to take the constitutional offensive. It has rejected a careful bipartisan effort to adapt existing laws to new technological realities, seeking instead to liberate presidential power from all traditional restraints by Congress and the courts. The Senate judiciary committee's reaction has been no less extraordinary. It hasn't capitulated to the administration's counteroffensive, but it hasn't stood firm against it, either...
http://www.slate.com/id/2149874
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Bruce Ackerman
09/18/06
Disdain for the rule of law is infectious. It began in Guantanamo, but it is now invading the American heartland. The Bush administration sees the wiretapping scandal at the National Security Agency as an opportunity to take the constitutional offensive. It has rejected a careful bipartisan effort to adapt existing laws to new technological realities, seeking instead to liberate presidential power from all traditional restraints by Congress and the courts. The Senate judiciary committee's reaction has been no less extraordinary. It hasn't capitulated to the administration's counteroffensive, but it hasn't stood firm against it, either...
http://www.slate.com/id/2149874
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 19. Sep, 15:19
