At the risk of being called fear monger, it looks as though our Senator, Carl Levin, has drafted language within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012… which is likely to be voted on tomorrow… that would give Obama, and the presidents to follow him, the power to, among other things, deploy our […]
Tag Archives: Unitary Executive
Senate to vote on giving President authority to indefinitely imprison American citizens, and others, without charge or trial
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics Also tagged abuse of power, call to action, Carl Levin, false imprisonment, John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, Lindsey Graham, Mark Udall, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, police state, prisoner rights, Ron Paul, Senate, worldwide military battlefield 29 Comments
Cheney asserts his alibi
Former Vice President Dick “There is No Doubt that Saddam Hussein Now Has Weapons of Mass Destruction” Cheney has just released a book entitled In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. The reviews thus far have not been kind. Many, including Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, feel as though it’s […]
Posted in Politics Also tagged Abu Ghraib, Ahmed Chalabi, Cheney's secretive energy task force, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, George Bush, George Tenet, Halliburton, In My Time, Iraq, John McLaughlin, Lawrence Wilkerson, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, memoirs, National Archives, Obama, Office of Special Plans, Saddam Hussein, torture, war crimes, war profiteering, warrantless searches 9 Comments