Friday, December 30, 2005

The Awful Truth about the Bush Abuse of Exec Power and the Spying Scandal

If this article doesn't chill your blood, then you must be inhuman... or Republican... which by the way usually means you are inhuman. WashPost: "Everything is done in the name of self-defense, so they can do anything because nothing is forbidden in the war powers act,'' said 1 official who was briefed on the CIA's original cover program and who is skeptical of its legal underpinnings. "It's an amazing legal justification that allows them to do anything,'' said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues. (What a shock... Bush believes the US truly is his personal monarchy) The interpretation undergirds the administration's determination not to waver under public protest or the threat of legislative action. For example, after The WashPost disclosed the existence of secret prisons in several E. European democracies, the CIA closed them down because of an uproar in Europe. But the detainees were moved elsewhere to similar CIA prisons, referred to as "black sites'' in classified documents. The CIA has stuck with its overall approaches, defending and in some cases refining them. (Here this article gets all eerily X-Files-esque and creepy): The agency is working to establish procedures in the event a prisoner dies in custody. One proposal circulating among mid-level officers calls for rushing in a CIA pathologist to perform an autopsy and then quickly burning the body, according to two sources. WTF? Destroying all evidence to ensure that none are wiser? This is an absolute nightmare of mammoth proportions, and they try to justify it w/this crap: "The exec branch will not pull back unless it has to,'' said a former Justice Dept lawyer involved in the initial discussions on exec power. "B/c if it pulls back unilaterally and another attack occurs, it will get blamed.'' Why shouldn't we blame them? They actively allowed the 1st set of attacks, so why should we think for 1 sec that they wouldn't have a demonic hand in any future attacks?
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