tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/25/2008
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Presidential overreaching, even at a scale as grand and outrageous as that practiced by the Bush Administration, leaves the country in a bit of a quandary. Many who deplore the lawbreaking and its consequences will believe, not without considerable justification, that the President and his ...
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GOP congressman says Congress must investigate the Bush administration
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Mickey Edwards: There should be a thorough investigation of the ways in which the current Administration may have disregarded the Constitution (examples: under the Constitution, the suspension of habeas corpus rights -- for anybody -- is flatly prohibited; the Constitution gives to the Congress, not the Executive, the sole authority to determine the treatment of captives; surveillance of American citizens requires a warrant). But that investigation should -- no, must -- be carried out not by an independent commission but by the Congress, just as Harry Truman, a ...
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