When just yesterday it would “endanger our safety” to confirm or deny. Bush is now openly claiming the right to do things which we permanently made illegal after Richard Nixon did them. He has been doing these illegal things for years. Jack Anderson died today; in the 1970s Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy seriously plotted to murder him because he was printing the truth about Nixon’s illegal actions with the ITT Corporation. Under the declarations of power made by Bush, this would be legal today. “It’s not illegal if the President does it,” said Richard Nixon, and he has gone down in infamy and disgrace for that very idea, now resurrected and acted on for years by George W. Bush. This is the very definiton of tyranny, which a million Americans died to protect us from.
a Sept. 25, 2001, memorandum [by the Justice Department’s John Yoo] that said no statute passed by Congress “can place any limits on the president’s determinations as to any terrorist threat, the amount of military force to be used in response, or the method, timing and nature of the response.”
This can not stand; the people of the United States must demand the list of those people whose rights were violated in secret, both by the wiretaps, and also by the secret prisons and renditions to other countries. If Bush does not respond, he must be impeached from office, no matter how long it takes.
“I tell you, he’s President George Bush, not King George Bush. This is not the system of government we have and that we fought for,” Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., told The Associated Press.
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