In a nutshell, these three Bush administration legal propositions boil down to this:
- “I don’t have to follow my own rules, and I don’t have to tell you when I’m breaking them.”
- “I get to determine what my own powers are.”
- “The Department of Justice doesn’t tell me what the law is, I tell the Department of Justice what the law is.”
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Can you say impeachment? Read the whole speech. It flows with the passion of a sermon, but grounded in a purely human context.
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