Saturday, June 24, 2006

The Bush code of secrecy


Don't think the law will work, to stop an illegal administration, which has shown only contempt for the law and the people whom it is supposed to protect.

The Bush code of secrecy Salon News:

"American presidents have long tested the bounds of executive power during wartime. But when it comes to protecting its secrets, the Bush administration has flexed unilateral power to a degree never before seen in U.S. history.
Since 2001, the administration has wielded the 'state secrets' privilege as a wide-ranging weapon to snuff out legal challenges to its most Draconian tactics in the global war on terror. At stake are no less than bedrock American moral and legal principles. Bush lawyers have aimed to shoot down court cases involving the indefinite detention and brutal interrogation of prisoners, the covert transfer of terror suspects to foreign governments known to torture, and domestic surveillance prying into the lives of thousands of Americans. " ((Read On ^)

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