IMO the NYTimes needs to be sued by relatives of dead soldiers since they helped the enemy and contributed to their deaths.
Posted on 07/16/2006 4:03:32 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
It is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration’s response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can see now, had far less to do with fighting Osama bin Laden than with expanding presidential power.
Over and over again, the same pattern emerges: Given a choice between following the rules or carving out some unprecedented executive power, the White House always shrugged off the legal constraints. Even when the only challenge was to get required approval from an ever-cooperative Congress, the president and his staff preferred to go it alone. While no one questions the determination of the White House to fight terrorism, the methods this administration has used to do it have been shaped by another, perverse determination: never to consult, never to ask and always to fight against any constraint on the executive branch.
One result has been a frayed democratic fabric in a country founded on a constitutional system of checks and balances. Another has been a less effective war on terror.
The Guantánamo Bay Prison
This whole sorry story has been on vivid display since the Supreme Court ruled that the Geneva Conventions and United States law both applied to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. For one brief, shining moment, it appeared that the administration realized it had met a check that it could not simply ignore. The White House sent out signals that the president was ready to work with Congress in creating a proper procedure for trying the hundreds of men who have spent years now locked up as suspected terrorists without any hope of due process.
But by week’s end it was clear that the president’s idea of cooperation was purely cosmetic.
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"Stroke of the pen, law of the land" worker for Prez. Klinton and her husband. Live with it NYT.
IMO the NYTimes needs to be sued by relatives of dead soldiers since they helped the enemy and contributed to their deaths.
Delusional?
More like hallucinatory.
don't you just love those early sunday morning al-jazeera press releases.
Ever cooperative congress?
MUWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
While no one questions the determination of the White House to fight terrorism
How is this statement compatible with that opening? You began by saying Bush's priority was expanding presidential power.
Of course we always like to bash the NYT, but they are steering very close to "Loose Change" territory. Before the election they will have an editorial titled "Disturbing 9-11 Questions That Won't Go Away." Their credibility is evaporating rapidly even among non-DU democrats with this hysterical caterwauling.
They are really, REALLY P.O.'d about the complaints about their blowing our terror-fighting secrets.
Now that the world is on the verge of WW III, they publish this garbage?
The New York Times is exhibiting the behavior of an alcoholic who has been forced to go to rehab, and refuses to admit reality at any cost.
9/11 never happened.
Nuts.
Mr Burns of the Simpsons would describe them as becoming more and more "impotent as a Nevada boxing commissioner"
I don't even read their entire headlines anymore. Everytime I see NYT, I go on to the next article. They can blab until they're blue in the face, but they've blown it big time in the Big Apple and have become the anus of the newsmedia.
We need that picture "Not that Sh!t again"
the full picture of the Bush administration’s response to the terror attacks is becoming clear.
Yes it is, our President is doing every thing that he can to protect us and the liberals that hate America are trying to tie his hands.
"procedure for trying the hundreds of men who have spent years now locked up as suspected terrorists without any hope of due process."
This is factually wrong.
Dozens - not hundreds - of "trials" are being entertained, and those are for specific war crimes.
The rest are considered POWs and will remain under lock and key for as long as the military decides they should. They will not get trials of any knd.
His manager described this treasonous act as: incredible courage.
You took the words right out of my mouth! What about "ever obstructionist Senate"?
Is the transformation to the Moonbat Times complete yet? The odd flash of sanity say in the crossword throws you on occasion.
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