Dictator Owl I... and his irrepressible Cosmic Enforcer... that could work. (At least it couldn't be any worse.) Have you, per chance, been keeping an eye on Muk asey? - a good dictatorial model, possibly worse than his 2 predecessors, if that is even possible. He wants to expand Bush's power to subvert the Constitution and the law. Beyond pitiful.
"...Mukasey's Plan: New Declaration of War; Torture Cover-up.
On July 21st, Bush's Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, called
on Congress to take dramatic steps to subvert the Constitution.
Mukasey asked that Congress issue a new declaration of war that would make the entire globe -- including the United States itself -- a "battlefield" where the president decides who will be locked up forever.
The Bush/Mukasey plan also includes a congressionally-approved
subversion of the Constitution and a cover-up of the Bush
administration's systemic torture and abuse of detainees.
At the same time, an ACLU lawsuit has uncovered new evidence that the torture and abuse Mukasey wants Congress to cover up was authorized by -- you guessed it -- the Justice Department. One of the documents obtained by the ACLU is a redacted version of a previously undisclosed 2002 Justice Department opinion that authorizes the CIA to use specific interrogation methods, including waterboarding. The memo states that interrogation methods that cause severe mental pain do not amount to torture under U.S. law unless they cause "harm lasting months or even years after the acts were inflicted upon the prisoners."
This document and others released from ACLU lawsuits add to a
substantial body of evidence that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody.
The Justice Department twisted the law -- and in some cases ignored it altogether -- in order to permit interrogators to use barbaric methods that the U.S. once prosecuted as war crimes.
Now, Mukasey -- as head of the Justice Department -- wants Congress to cover up torture committed under the watch of his predecessor, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
It is so outrageous that it seems like a joke or something out of "The Onion." Even The Colbert Report on Comedy Central lampooned the administration's attempts to cover up torture. Unfortunately, this latest power grab by the Bush administration is no laughing matter...." |
