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To: Constant Reader who wrote (1724)	12/21/2005 12:16:02 AM
From: wonk	Respond to of 2253

...Unlike some I have recently run across, I want more information before deciding that George W. Bush should be impeached or the republic is indeed in serious peril. Bruce Fein, a conservative Republican with impeccable constitutional legal credentials seems to believe it’s quite serious. Excerpts from his op-ed today in the Washington Times – of all places. Last Saturday, he thus aggressively defended the constitutionality of his secret order to the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on the international communications of Americans whom the executive branch speculates might be tied to terrorists….Mr. Bush's defense generally echoed previous outlandish assertions that the commander in chief enjoys inherent constitutional power to ignore customary congressional, judicial or public checks on executive tyranny under the banner of defeating international terrorism, for example, defying treaty or statutory prohibitions on torture or indefinitely detaining United States citizens as illegal combatants on the president's say-so. President Bush presents a clear and present danger to the rule of law. He cannot be trusted to conduct the war against global terrorism with a decent respect for civil liberties and checks against executive abuses….. washtimes.com When a constitutional scholar invokes the “Clear and Present Danger” standard, it more than just rhetoric. ww