BushCo taking a series of unusual steps - Hayden to maintain his rank

Seriously, I'm wondering. Is that even legal?

or any other Du'er who has the knowledge...

military person head the CIA. Legal? Idon't know.

was no longer active duty when he headed the CIA?

suspending Shrub's Commander in Chief authority over a 4 star general?

All those "paranoid" fears are coming to life. :scared:

as head of the DNI, millions of Operation TIPS informants signed up, one could become a bit paranoid if one were so inclined.

I don't know what dusk looked like before the black night fell in Germany but I sure hope these dots don't connect into a familiar pattern.

so now the chain of command is worthless? Who IS in charge of this ass? Only George?

It starts with Bush** and trickles down.

...Herr Busch.

Comforting thought, eh?

Although the chain of command means nothing now. All that's left are Shrub loyalists, answerable only to him.

scarier by the day, hope the Dem's can get behind stopping this. Notice how it says "GOP leaders and the Bush administration" almost as if nobody else matters.

:banghead:

all this down. Cuz the way I see it, there will certainly be a lot of folks in the future wondering how the USA became a fascist dictatorship.

Then I read the little blurb hidden in a mountain of crap and realized, we will never hear of this again. Nice catch.

Jay

We are now officially a banana republic.

all the freakin time it seems. Seriously - how long are we expected to put up with this crap? Until it's too late? :(

We write letters, make phone calls, sign petitions, march in protests...Polls now show the majority of Americans are p.o.'d with this regime...The Dems we rely on to at least stand up to these thugs roll over with a whimper....

What do we do when the entire government is non-responsive to the voice of the people?

if the government is totally unresponsive to the will of the peope it is called 'Revolution'!!!

...and I suspect that's precisely what the Bush** regime wants, one way or another.

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the Legislative bends over and tries to re-write them as though play CYA with Bush's A rather than their own. Maketh nonsense (also maketh no sense). I suppose that if the question ever qot far enough the Judicial branch would declare any law that offends Bush to be unconstitutional.

This is not the definition of a Democracy, unless it's a new form of Democracy--one properly named Totalitarian Democracy and/or Democratic Oligarchy (or in reality Corporate Democracy). Better yet, Illusory Democracy.

Illusory Democracy gets my vote.

Of course I will vote in November (it will be our last hope), but the two most recent presidential "elections" would seem to have rather clearly demonstrated that, in today's America, vote counts only mean what the Busheviks say they mean. In the late '60s and early to mid '70s there was a lot of talk among those of us who were young then about "going underground." I think the time may have come to resurrect that term and start thinking seriously about just exactly what it entails. If we don't pull this out of the hat in November, there likely won't be anything left to pull out of the hat. And remember, a lot can happen between now and then. One good MIHOP and Der Fuehrer might decide to declare martial law and postpone the elections in the interest of national security. All this might once have sounded pretty conspiratorial, but how conspiratorial is it when the military starts taking over civilian agencies?

I compiled some NSA Domestic Spying Articles and hosting it on my Server here.

http://truth4you.no-ip.org/special/nsa.html

November's Comin' Baby!

VOTE DEMS!

Luke Nichols
Princeton, WV

and welcome to DU!

May your stay be long and fruitful. :hi:

a CoverUp In Chief and no Congress. Hammer and sickle on our money is the only missing now.

now there is a shock! Repukes in congress are disgusting enablers of the little shithead king**. :puke:

Otherwise I'd be worried.

:sarcasm:

Gratutitous I-told-ya-so-moment: I warned about the militarization of American politics in my journal a few months ago, and was largely derided for such criticism on the grounds that I myself am not a member of the military. How ironic.

If he can maintain his military rank while doing a civilian job, he gets that many more years of service credit. Losing service credit for retirement is a huge disincentive for anyone to take a temporary political appointment, no matter where they are coming from.

Of course, the best solution to that problem is for the Senate not to approve his appointment in the first place.

he simply refuses to live by them. what else did you expect from a guy who called the constitution "just a goddamned piece of paper?"

I think he needs to be reminded of his Oath of Office, in which he swore to uphold and defend that "goddamned piece of paper."

What an asshole!

Might as well finish the whole Banana Republic thing.

of command because I SAID so." - Chimpy Sez

"GOP leaders and the Bush administration have agreed to take a series of unusual steps..." Like What ELSE is Fuckin' New??? :grr:

He'll no longer report to Rumsfeld; how utterly charming. :sarcasm: