The Emperor's Powers

How many laws will President Bush actually have to break before we can get legitimate inquiry by Congress? It wasn't enough when Bush hit the legal trifecta of lying us into war, condoning torture, and Plamegate. David Cole has some insights into the newest way Bush has chosen to thwart our laws for the sake of "freedom and democracy". Check out the link below.

When Congress authorized the President to use all "necessary and appropriate" military force to respond to the 9/11 attackers, little did members know that in George W. Bush's mind they were freeing him to wiretap innocent American citizens without probable cause or a judicial warrant, to hold indefinitely without charge US citizens arrested within US borders and to order torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of suspects.