The Limit
From the article:
"From the outset, President Bush declared that the battle against al-Qaeda would be a war like no other, fought by new rules against new enemies not entitled to the old protections afforded to either prisoners of war or criminal defendants.
The White House acknowledgment on Tuesday that a key clause of the Geneva Conventions applies to al-Qaeda detainees, as a recent Supreme Court ruling affirmed, is only the latest step in the gradual erosion of the administration’s aggressive legal stance."
UBlo: buyin' or sellin'?
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I'm a seller. This admin has a history of saying one thing, and doing the opposite of, or neutering those words. When Congress told the White House, "no more torture," W signed, but then said the law doesn't apply to him.
But since Congress is waking up to the whole concept of separation of power, and since they were a touch miffed at being made fools of, again, with the torture end run and since the Jefferson raid got them all riled up, maybe they will hold firm (remember Hamden put it on them to fix this).
I do hope I'm wrong though.
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