Wow! Did Pres. Bush not care an inch about personal freedom..

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S., as long as the president or another high official authorized the action.

Even after the Bush administration rescinded that legal analysis, the Justice Department refused to release its contents, prompting a standoff with congressional Democrats.

The memo was one of nine released Monday by the Obama administration.

Breitbart.com
 
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Wow,

How dare President Bush make a law such as that, especially just a month after the 9-11 attack.




Give me a fucking break...
 
Jarod said:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S., as long as the president or another high official authorized the action.

Even after the Bush administration rescinded that legal analysis, the Justice Department refused to release its contents, prompting a standoff with congressional Democrats.

The memo was one of nine released Monday by the Obama administration.

Breitbart.com
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Poor Jarad....his terrorists pals were deprived of their "civil rights"

My heart bleeds for you Sonny....:321:
 
bravo said:
Poor Jarad....his terrorists pals were deprived of their "civil rights"

My heart bleeds for you Sonny....:321:
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I'm not certain this story is even true, but regardless of that fact, and the fact that to the best of my knowledge, I have no terrorists friends, I must say that the idea of the President simply eliminating Constitutional protections with the stroke of a pen is highly alarming to me. The piece in the OP doesn't say anything at all about this not applying to U.S. citizens. It doesn't say anything at all about due process. It simply says, if the President authorizes the action, so be it.

You know I wonder if the neighborhood bully that George Bush feared when he was six years old, still roams free! Get the idea here? With this kind of an action, you don't have to be a terrorist to be treated like one.

Immie
 
I would look for more such revelations from the Obama administration. Especially if the economy continues to tank in spite of the massive spending bill. All magicians use this type of misdirection.

Now that we have that out of the way...

WTF could they have been thinking? It strikes me as a damn near impossible policy to implement. Who the hell would qualify as a suspected terrorist? It's not as if they're all walking around with name tags.
 
webbway said:
Wow,

How dare President Bush make a law such as that, especially just a month after the 9-11 attack.




Give me a fucking break...
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So if Bush suspected you of being a "Terrorist", he should be allowed to say the Constitution did not apply? Hell in the 02' election he stoped just short of calling John Kerry a terrorist.... I wonder if he felt he could have suspended Kerry's constitutonal rights had the polls had the race a bit colser,
 
bravo said:
Poor Jarad....his terrorists pals were deprived of their "civil rights"

My heart bleeds for you Sonny....:321:
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The problem lies in the right to just claim anyone is a terrorist suspect. You just want to trust Bush's judgement as to who is a "terrorist suspect"?
 
Norman Paperman said:
I would look for more such revelations from the Obama administration. Especially if the economy continues to tank in spite of the massive spending bill. All magicians use this type of misdirection.

Now that we have that out of the way...

WTF could they have been thinking? It strikes me as a damn near impossible policy to implement. Who the hell would qualify as a suspected terrorist? It's not as if they're all walking around with name tags.
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That's the beauty of it. You are a suspected terrorist if the president says you are.
 
Dungheap said:
That's the beauty of it. You are a suspected terrorist if the president says you are.
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That is why we have these Constitutional protections, to prevent arbitrary allegations from being used to persecute individuals.

Bush eithor did not care or did not understand.
 
This should really get more media coverage, our liberal media is slacking.

It illistrates that Bush was over the line with basic principals of freedom and limited government.
 
Jarod said:
This should really get more media coverage, our liberal media is slacking.

It illistrates that Bush was over the line with basic principals of freedom and limited government.
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It's probably getting less MSM coverage because there is less than solid evidence. The media has no qualms reporting negative things about Bush.
 
And the real horror of all this is you could have been detained, told them you were a US citizen and under then existing policy, you would have had no right to see a judge to PROVE you were an American citizen.
 
Damocles said:
It's probably getting less MSM coverage because there is less than solid evidence. The media has no qualms reporting negative things about Bush.
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Less than solid Evidence? They released the actual report, authored again by Woo. This guy was a solid enemy of freedom.
 
Damocles said:
It's probably getting less MSM coverage because there is less than solid evidence. The media has no qualms reporting negative things about Bush.
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Less than solid evidence? The legal opinions in their full glory have been produced and available. It's all there for anyone to see.
 
Socrtease said:
Less than solid Evidence? They released the actual report, authored again by Woo. This guy was a solid enemy of freedom.
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I'll admit I haven't read the thread. I've been in other places. I've kinda skimmed it.

Does the report show that it was policy for any length of time or that Woo simply wrote up something he thought should be policy?
 
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