FindLaw's 1st Substantial Paper-SPYGATE: "Tyranny's Engines Raring to Go"

(Kpete: snippets from FindLaw-read the whole thing-good stuff!)

Warrantless Wiretapping: Why It Seriously Imperils the Separation of Powers, And Continues the Executive's Sapping of Power From Congress and the Courts
By EDWARD LAZARUS


This Administration wants virtually unlimited power with essentially no accountability. I might almost be able to stomach Bush's "just trust me" claims of Executive power, if the President could be made truly accountable for his decisions down the road. But Bush wants the power with no public debate and a minimum of public disclosure.

I wouldn't trust any Administration with such a blank check. And this isn't just any Administration. It's an Administration with a deeply troubling history of mistakes and obfuscation, an Administration that seems to expand its definition of terrorism however it finds convenient, an Administration that brooks none of the internal dissent that might check authoritarian impulses.

Against that backdrop, the new revelations of warrantless wiretapping, and the Administration's latest set of explanations, sound less like a plan to fight terror than like tyranny's engines, raring to go.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20051222.html

This article is a 'MUST READ' for everyone advocating for an official impeachment inquiry on Bush (and Cheney).

Here is the legal case, presented reasonably and calmly, that Bush has stepped far outside of the law and Constitution.

Distribute the link to this piece to all who are serious about sseking impeachment.

In order to get the FISA Court and the legal system 'back up to speed', all of the four years of illegal wiretapping will have to be resubmitted and reviewed. We do things with regard to due process in the USofA and the 4th amendment doesn't get trumped by the President's supposedly inherent dictatorial powers of martial law.

This is why that (probably already overworked) FISA judge resigned in protest. You're going to overload them and their regular workload.

Bush incompetence strikes again, and "Creeping Tyranny". Bush creeps tyranny and oozes authoritarianism ! I also liked this quote:

""The Administration's M.O. in all such initiatives seems to be consistent. Within the Executive Branch, it uses the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel - which used to serve as a neutral arbiter on questions of Executive power - as a veritable department of justification: a place where Executive Branch ideologues concoct defenses, no matter how one-sided or incomplete, for every act the President would like to undertake. It is from OLC, for instance, that the notorious torture memos came - and now, the justification for warrantless wiretaps.""

DOJ is Dept of Justification ! ROFLMFAO !

:thumbsup::kick:

Just waiting for Bush to give the goahead. The concentration camps are all ready for Halliburton and DynCorp to set up shop.

We'll need another USMC Gen Smedley D. Butler to say SOMETHING in order to prevent the current crop of military idiots from going along with the neofascist agenda.

NEVER FORGET THAT:evilgrin:

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The Administration's M.O. in all such initiatives seems to be consistent. Within the Executive Branch, it uses the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel - which used to serve as a neutral arbiter on questions of Executive power - as a veritable department of justification: a place where Executive Branch ideologues concoct defenses, no matter how one-sided or incomplete, for every act the President would like to undertake. It is from OLC, for instance, that the notorious torture memos came - and now, the justification for warrantless wiretaps.

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There is definitively a criminal M.O. of the Bushco sociopaths.