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Could The Executive Branch Use War In Iraq To Seize More Freedoms?
By Michael Gaddy - The Sierra Times
A very ugly theory has been making the usual rounds lately. Considering the Patriot Act was passed on October 25th 2001, 98-1, by senators who had not even read the legislation, this theory becomes increasingly ominous. The theory goes like this: The Bush administration would wait until war began, and worry gripped the homeland, to ram a staggering package of domestic security measures through a Congress silenced by fears of seeming unpatriotic. Such measures would radically expand the executive branch powers already inflated by the 2001 USA Patriot Act. To add fuel to the flame, Justice Department spokesperson Mark Corallo confirmed to the Village Voice that such measures were coming soon. Exact details are confined to "internal deliberations," he said, but the proposals "will be filling in the holes" of the Patriot Act, "refining things that will enable us to do our job."

posted by A Curmudgeon 8:51 AM