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| NY Slimes Editorial: The Imperial Presidency at Work |
| 2006-01-15 |
| In an obvious attempt to declare war on the Bush Administration, so as to sell more copies, the NY Slimes takes another shot.... You would think that Senators Carl Levin and John McCain would have learned by now that you cannot deal in good faith with a White House that does not act in good faith. Yet both men struck bargains intended to restore the rule of law to American prison camps. And President Bush tossed them aside at the first opportunity. Mr. Bush made a grand show of inviting Mr. McCain into the Oval Office last month to announce his support for a bill to require humane treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and other prisons run by the American military and intelligence agencies. He seemed to have managed to get Vice President Dick Cheney to stop trying to kill the proposed Congressional ban on torture of prisoners. The White House also endorsed a bargain between Mr. Levin and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, which tempered somewhat a noxious proposal by Mr. Graham to deny a court hearing to anyone the president declares to be an "unlawful enemy combatant." The bargain with Mr. Levin removed language that stripped away cases already before the courts, which would have been an egregious usurpation of power by one branch of government, and it made clear that those cases should remain in the courts. Mr. Bush, however, seems to see no limit to his imperial presidency. First, he issued a constitutionally ludicrous "signing statement" on the McCain bill. The message: Whatever Congress intended the law to say, he intended to ignore it on the pretext the commander in chief is above the law. That twisted reasoning is what led to the legalized torture policies, not to mention the domestic spying program. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #4 Bush is American-elected, they are self-selected. No newsprint for oil! Lol. NYT slimes. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-01-15 21:28 |
| #3 Al Qaeda's Dept. of Intelligence Gathering and Propaganda aka The New York Times |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-01-15 21:04 |
| #2 Is the the Jayson Blair Editorial???? |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2006-01-15 21:03 |
| #1 imagine! A media organization that uses its' influence to sell a book, regardless of the damage it exerts on the WOT and national security...and they have the chutzpah to talk about GOOD FAITH! F*&kers, bastards, traitors and cowards fit the NY Times and their ilk more likely than a "news" organization *spit* |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-15 20:39 |