The Raw Story | Report: GOP Senator seeks to limit presidential signing statements: "Specter's bill would prevent the president from issuing a signing statement that alters a statute's meaning by 'instructing federal and state courts not to rely on presidential signing statements in interpreting a statute,' Roll Call reported. His measure also would give Congress a heightened role in court cases involving an interpretation of law in an existing statement by allowing Congress to file briefs and present oral arguments in the cases."
I see a little issue with this bill. If it gets passed by congress, what would stop the Decider from vetoing it, or, ironically, adding a signing statement to it? This administration will not give up the power it has stolen so easily.
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
AlterNet: Bush Lets Libby Walk
AlterNet: Bush Lets Libby Walk: "Libby had become a symbol of the Bush White House's problem with the truth. After all, his lies had been designed to block FBI agents and federal prosecutors from learning the full truth of a White House effort to discredit a critic who had accused the Bush administration of twisting the prewar intelligence. And now the final act in the long-running CIA leak scandal -- Bush's commutation -- stands as another symbol of this grand theme: lying doesn't really bother this crowd.
In the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush claimed he would bring responsibility to the White House and, as a PR stunt, he dubbed his campaign jet Accountability One. Yet with this commutation, he takes the position that in his administration an aide who purposefully misleads government officials investigating a possible national security crime need not be held fully accountable."
Bush is the decider, and he has decided to let Libby go. Why did he not go all the way? He will still get huge amounts of criticism, he might as well have given Libby a full pardon. 30 months of jail was apparently too much time for a person who conspired to out a covert CIA agent, because her husband spoke against the war. This could have possibly endangered other operatives and national security as a whole. Then he proceeded to cover it up with lies. This is another shining example of how corrupt this administration is.
In the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush claimed he would bring responsibility to the White House and, as a PR stunt, he dubbed his campaign jet Accountability One. Yet with this commutation, he takes the position that in his administration an aide who purposefully misleads government officials investigating a possible national security crime need not be held fully accountable."
Bush is the decider, and he has decided to let Libby go. Why did he not go all the way? He will still get huge amounts of criticism, he might as well have given Libby a full pardon. 30 months of jail was apparently too much time for a person who conspired to out a covert CIA agent, because her husband spoke against the war. This could have possibly endangered other operatives and national security as a whole. Then he proceeded to cover it up with lies. This is another shining example of how corrupt this administration is.
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