NY Lawyers Accuse Bush of Abuse of Power

[Laurier]

A new book by two attorneys from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law indicts President George W. Bush for claiming "power unprecedented on this side of the North Atlantic to suspend or wholly circumvent laws" and warns that his successors may be tempted to follow in his footsteps.

The book is called "Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror" and looks like it will make interesting reading.

Some snippets:

By increasing executive power through strained constitutional interpretations from White House counsel and legislative support from a compliant Congress, Mr. Bush has "actually made America less safe," said Mr. Schwarz.

Mr. Huq, director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program, said in the same interview that "keeping secrets and waving the bloody flag " represented presidential "policy failures that became national failures." The book he wrote with Mr. Schwarz, he said, is meant to provoke debate on "what it means to be an American" and to foster new appreciation for "our constitutional culture," the theory of proper government as a system of checks and balances.

There is more but I don't want to quote too much of the article and run afoul of the rules. The link is here:

http://www.nylawyer.com/display.php/file=/news/07/03/033007i

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Impeachable from day one,Spoil the child and then shove him down the countries throat..

Thanks Poppy.