Nothing in the U.S. Constitution, least of all the commander-in-chief clause, allows the president to commit felonies. Nevertheless, within days after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush signed a secret executive order authorizing the new policy of "extraordinary rendition," in which the CIA is allowed to kidnap terrorist suspects anywhere on Earth and transfer them to prisons in countries such as Egypt, Syria, or Uzbekistan, where torture is a normal practice, or to secret CIA prisons outside the United States where Agency operatives themselves do the torturing.
5. The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has used fascist-like, McCarthyite tactics and suspended fundamental liberties at home, including the nearly millennium-old Right of Habeas Corpus.
Once a politician embraces illegality, there are no limits. For instance, George W. Bush has paved the way for exercising martial law powers, first by de-facto repealing the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that forbids the deployment of soldiers on American soil for domestic law enforcement, and, second, by signing last October (2006) the Military Commissions Act of 2006(MCA: HR 6166). Under this act, the president has granted himself almost-dictatorial powers to arrest and detain indefinitely any American citizen, without constitutional protections.
The list of international treaties -- which are "the law of the land" according to the U.S. Constitution (Art. VI, para. 2) and the U.S. Supreme Court -- that George W. Bush has unilaterally disregarded, cancelled or violated, is very long.
They include: The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia, the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming, the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the 1997 Land Mine Treaty, the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the Geneva conventions of Aug. 12, 1949, the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the 2001 UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms, the 1998 International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the 2001 International Plan for Cleaner Energy, the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1945 Nuremberg Tribunal Charter against wars of aggression, etc. It has even violated the spirit of the 1967 “Outer Space Treaty” (OST)by indicating its intention to assert American military control of Outer Space.
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