Bush does it again

[unixronin]

WASHINGTON - President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned.

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20.  Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.

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"Despite the President's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.

"A word means what I want it to mean; nothing more, and nothing less."  So said Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.  George W. Bush continues to demonstrate that he holds much the same opinion about laws and the Constitution.

(Crossposted by request to neph_politics)

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Done. :)

Ummmm

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

DearHeart, your brain isn't quite functioning yet. You aren't alaric, sorry.

Re: Ummmm

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oops......... Fixed