Here they are:
Abuse of power:
-- Violating Habeus Corpus; denying Due Process of Law to detainees.
Violating our Constitutional system of Checks & Balances and Separation of Powers by:
-- Frequent and excessive use of signing statements, detailing what he will and will not enforce. He is not a legislature. His job is to enforce ALL the law.
-- Keeping Congress, which has a Constitutional role in oversight, in the dark on many matters.
Obstruction of justice:
-- Ordering subordinates not to testify to Congress (ignoring subpoenas), withholding requested documents.
Breaking the law
-- FISA Act. Illegal wiretaps.
-- The law prohibiting outing of CIA personnel.
-- Violating our Treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions with illegal detention, torture, and renditioning.
If you believe in the Rule of Law, the office of the Presidency MUST be restored to its Constitutional limits. Otherwise you set in stone what a President can do and get away with. I
2007-09-03
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