Unchecked Presidential Power

[pegkerr]

Here's an op-ed piece by Bruce Schneier in the Star Tribune:

In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, President Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he started using it to avoid the law.

See also the comments on his blog.

Comments

[gamps-garret.livejournal.com]

Similarly, an Editorial in the New York Times: The Fog of False Choices (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/opinion/20tue1.html).

(Found in ljdemocrats -- you might like that community if you aren't already a member.)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

And on 9/12, that's what started really, realy scaring me. You could see it coming.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Do we have any reason to believe that this won't be true?

B

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

None, I'm afraid. Sigh.