2009-02-03, 04:14 AM
If I recall correctly, wasn't Cheney the President of Haliburton and a staunch advocate of a unitary executive power (almost like a dictatorship)?
Alberto Gonzales was also perhaps one of the worst attorney general's in the history of politics, allowing himself to be manipulated by Cheney and Addington's dual interpretation of the law to the point that they ran the government "underground."
There's a PBS documentary that is online called, "Cheney's Law" (*highly entertaining and highly recommended*) which vividly displays that these people were political radicals who showed raving support for a dictatorial-translation of the Constitution by utilizing executive privileges in time of conflict. They gathered allies in the Department of Justice and for a time period managed to get away with looking at personal search logs on phones, computers, and internet search engines without being accountable to Judicial Review or the FISC which is, "an established federal court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Act of 1978 and oversees requests for warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal police agencies."
Alberto Gonzales was also perhaps one of the worst attorney general's in the history of politics, allowing himself to be manipulated by Cheney and Addington's dual interpretation of the law to the point that they ran the government "underground."
There's a PBS documentary that is online called, "Cheney's Law" (*highly entertaining and highly recommended*) which vividly displays that these people were political radicals who showed raving support for a dictatorial-translation of the Constitution by utilizing executive privileges in time of conflict. They gathered allies in the Department of Justice and for a time period managed to get away with looking at personal search logs on phones, computers, and internet search engines without being accountable to Judicial Review or the FISC which is, "an established federal court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Act of 1978 and oversees requests for warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal police agencies."