All power to the President

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

04/02/08

The release of a five-year-old Justice Department memo underscores how far the advocates for George W. Bush’s unfettered power were ready to go. But the enduring threat is that four U.S. Supreme Court justices — one shy of a majority — favor that imperial presidency. …. Though little discussed on the campaign trail, a crucial issue to be decided in November is whether the United States will return to its traditions as a constitutional Republic respecting “unalienable” human rights or whether it will finish a transformation into a frightened nation governed by an all-powerful President who can do whatever he wants during the open-ended “war on terror...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/040208.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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2001 White House Memo O.K.'d Spying, More

The Associated Press reports, "For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on US soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040308J.shtml

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Secret DOJ Memo Says Fourth Amendment Has "No Application" After 9/11
http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/030408Memo.htm



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