Thursday, April 03, 2008

Not A Joke: Our Leaders Claim Presidential Fiat Overrules The Bill Of Rights

So it's official: There may as well be no rights left in this country, it's all meaningless.
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.
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The memo is here and here.

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