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REBOOT THE SYSTEM??
If Obama does as you seem to suggest, that we acknowledge that some wrong was done but we have to let bygones be bygones, reboot the system so to speak, then we have admitted in the full light of day that we have a multitiered legal system, not blind justice. It will always be disruptive to have investigations and possible prosecutions, but ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by gloriarouse on December 8, 2008
Do we have any laws in this country?
How is it possible that the President can do all the things we have learned he can do without any Congressional restraint? Congress passes a law, and the President adds a note at the bottom when he signs it that serves to make the law do the opposite of what Congress intended. Congress authorizes billions of dollars to buy up mortgage securities ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by mthabetz on November 23, 2008
On this issue John McCain and George W. Bush aren't the same
I complete agree that Bush/Cheney's disdain for the Constitution and the rule of law is the greatest (of many) failures of the past eight years. Perhaps the Dems aren't making a lot of noise because on this issue there actually is some daylight between McCain's position and Bush's, and McCain's positions haven't been all that different from ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by jdg on August 29, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Re: Read Between the Lines: FISA Gets Amended In 2009.
I'd like to believe the assertion that FISA will be amended next year and that Obama will revert to his previously stated positions once elected... but if you're going to extend to him that generosity, don't you have to do the same for McCain? Maybe everything we have seen of McCain since 2000 has been his politically-expedient shifting of ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Sneaky Pete on July 10, 2008
Executive privilege and the past president
After President Bush has left office, how are his executive privilege claims affected? To what extent can the new president make public or turn over to Congress papers that Bush asks be kept confidential until later? In particular:If Congress continues to investigate matters such as the firing of the US attorneys, can the new president remove ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by Glenn Cassidy on April 4, 2008
Warrantless Wiretapping Story
The NY Times--and the story's author--has gotten lost by thinking only about the effect of the story on the Bush administration. The author assumes that revealing defense secrets has no effect on our enemies. One immediate result was the birth of ''cyber cafes'' and ''disposable phones''--both of which make it much harder for our government to ...
Posted to Politics by wrtr83 on April 1, 2008
Re: Lichtblau: self-righteous, arrogant, foolish
''And whether the program was being abused or not, most agree that it was an illegal program, and not everyone believes we should throw away our rights and forget the law because we're told there's a good reason.'' First of all, if you or your family was vaporized in a nuclear attack tomorrow, you might feel differently. Perhaps compromising ...
Posted to Politics by DTangfield on March 28, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
Why filters won't solve the problem
Imagine that the government is clever enough that it can come up with a filter that has a 99.99% chance of tagging a non-terrorist communication as non-terrorist, and a 99.99% chance of tagging a terrorist-related communication as terrorist. I think we'd all be impressed. Further guess that as many as 1 out of 10,000 (0.01%) of all the ...
Posted to The Breakfast Table by StatNerd on August 30, 2007

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