Bush Retreats on Use of Executive Power
President Bush's decision to submit his warrantless-surveillance program to the jurisdiction of a special intelligence court represents the latest step back from the expansive interpretation of executive power he has asserted since the September 11, 2001, attacks. Under pressure from Congress and the courts, Bush in the past six months has closed secret overseas CIA prisons, transferred previously unidentified detainees to regular military custody, negotiated Congressional approval for tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects and accepted at least some regulation of how harshly such prisoners could be interrogated.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807K.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807K.shtml
rudkla - 18. Jan, 18:35
