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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (261980)	6/7/2002 10:02:40 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

Good question. Answer: no one No one can be trusted to handle Royal power, for very long. As it is, there is so much absolute authority to conceal and deceive within the intel services and executive branch, it is already an autocracy, by those that run the secret agencies and the military. Clinton benefitted from dealing with the profiteers, but wasn't inclined to, for example, make secret the last 20 years' presidential papers. Now, the profiteers themselves are in office. You can see the difference, in only 18 months. And it continues. Congress is pretty ineffectual on most counts. The framers figured it would be better that way, to have checks and balances, and a not too efficient government. Now, it looks too efficient. What the framers didn't anticipate was the overwhelming authority the executive branch would have. This new agency will have powers that the Executive wants, and likely the oversight will be symbolic rather than actual. Already, it's "authority" is officially very limited, wrt intel services, so what will the 14,000 people do? Answer:probably nothing of much use to the American people, but be another 14,000 to do the bidding of the all-powerful executive branch. When you say "real measure", keep in mind what history has shown, about being "truly threatened". That's a decision for the people, not the all-powerful central government, that has an appetite for "threats", real or imagined, that keep the bureacracy going, to keep sucking tax dollars out of citizens' pockets, and keep manipulating the media to befuddle as many as possible. That's why it must be made illegal to covertly influence the media, with any government dollars.

To: Neeka who wrote (261980)	6/8/2002 12:11:46 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

February 2001 A bipartisan panel led by former US senators Warren B. Rudman and Gary Hart on Wednesday called for the creation of a Cabinet-level agency to assume responsibility for defending the United States against the increasing likelihood of terrorist attacks in the country. The commission making the recommendation included high-ranking military and former Cabinet secretaries. Their report warned bluntly that terrorists probably will attack the US with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons at some point within the next 25 years. June 2002 Bush to Announce Restructuring of Homeland Security By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:09 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a major restructuring, President Bush will propose creation of a Cabinet domestic security department to take over border security, intelligence and other issues now housed in eight separate federal agencies. The Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft/Rumsfeld/Rice braintrust finally figures it out. A year and a half, and 3,000 deaths late. And will the press point out, or even remember, that George Jr., having awakened from his 18 month siesta, is finally doing what a Presidential Commission, appointed by William Jefferson Clinton, recommended that he do when he first became President? Will the press ask Ari "My lips are moving" Fleischer : "Ari, isn't the President now doing exactly what former President Bill Clinton's appointees recommended that he do 18 months ago?" They will ask that, won't they? Robert Trimble mediawhoresonline.com This is what Congress is truly capable of. Nothing, if the executive branch can stonewall. That is, until a politically expedient time, like now when bi-partisan investigations are starting.