U.S. to bypass 30 laws to build border fence
The Bush administration plans to bypass more than 30 laws and regulations to finish building 670 miles of border fence – including 30 miles of fencing and technology on environmentally sensitive land in San Diego County.
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I phink I see a pattern here. And it's kinda brilliant.
News item: Memo: Laws Didn't Apply to Interrogators
Justice Dept. Official in 2003 Said President's Wartime Authority Trumped Many Statutes
By Dan Eggen and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page A01
The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.
I think I get it now: It's the Nixon Doctrine.
Frost: Would you say that there are certain situations - and the Huston Plan was one of them - where the president can decide that it's in the best interests of the nation, and do something illegal?
Nixon: Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
Frost: By definition.
Nixon: Exactly, exactly. If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president's decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law. Otherwise they're in an impossible position.
So dat kinda solves everyding den...
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