Johnathan Turley at Conyers’ NSA Hearing: Bush Committed a Crime

http://www.archive.org/download/illegal_spying/nsa_hearing1-turley.mp3">MP3 OF Hearing


TRANSCRIPT: http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10851

President Bush has for many years asserted authority that is both absolute and in my view, quite dangerous.

In August 2002, there was the infamous torture memo, put out by the justice department, that stated that the President could indeed order gov’t officials to violate federal law. In fact, that memo said that imposing a limitation on his ability to conduct exercises that constitute torture would be a constitutional infringement on his authority.

The President also claimed authority to unilaterally declare a citizen an enemy combatant, to strip him entirely of his constitutional rights, including the right of access to counsel.

On Dec 30th 2005, the President signed the torture bill and he used a “signing statement”- reserving the right to violate that law. Now we know that there is an NSA operation based on the same extreme theory of Presidential power.

bush. Hitler.

Same shit, different asshole.

DIDN"T JUST VIOLATE Federal Law...he violated the US COPNSTITUTION!!! Grounds for impeachment...it's a fricking FELONY!

Peace.

for all those who missed it the first time.... Thanks

I was screaming about that signing statement because it made all of McCain's anti-torture passion moot. Just rhetoric. Bush made a mockery of all of congress with that one little signing statement. And they did nothing. And I screamed about Alito because he was the unitary executive go to guy. They let him through..again neutering their own power. And then the NSA revelations come through. And what do they do? Nothing. Hold hearings and decide to make it legal retroactively or something absurd like that. I hold BOTH Republicans and Democrats responsible. Bush is openly flouting the law and the constitution. And history is watching to see if those that supposedly took an oath to defend that document even can bother to show they "care."

Oh and what I love about Conyers is he said in his interview in the March Harper's on impeachment-it's all there in the record-that if that's the least he can do-he's doing THAT-no one can say in the future they didn't know. Ignorance is not an excuse.

And when you see someone like Turley-some REAL conservative telling the truth-Bush broke the law, and the constitution- what are those in congress doing then-just spinning it into propaganda. More mockery. More sham representation. But that's all it is. Propaganda. Some things are absolute.