Thursday March 05, 2009
Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State
Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the president with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide "legal" rationales for the president to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of US citizens; lock up US citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties.
According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state.
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