Above pic is an excerpt of one of the Bush secret memos. In plain translation: War was a blank check for former president Bush not just in terrorism overseas but inside of United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday 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Even after the Bush administration rescinded that legal analysis, the Justice Department refused to release its contents, prompting a standoff with congressional Democrats.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.
Another memo showed that, within two weeks of Sept. 11, the administration was contemplating ways to use wiretaps without getting warrants.
The author of the search and seizure memo, John Yoo, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
In that memo, Yoo wrote that the president could treat terrorist suspects in the United States like an invading foreign army. For instance, he said, the military would not have to get a warrant to storm a building to prevent terrorists from detonating a bomb.
Yoo also suggested that the government could put new restrictions on the press and speech, without spelling out what those might be.
Read on.
The memos can be accessed at this link.
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Every American is responsible for this action. Law Makers should also be held accountable. Pelosi knew that but kept impeachment off the table. People should be prosecuted for these crimes. Just think how many innocent people were tortured even murdered by the US. Everything Bush said was an open lie. We have to leave with what was done in our country's name for the 8 years this took place. Electing a new President can't change what happen. For those of us who read the horror of the Dictators of the pass we now have a US President that fits the same bill. We can no longer call the USA the example to the World. I pray God will forgive all of us for our sin of doing nothing while the Bush Administration committed these horrorable acts against humanity. We have no defense if a country does the same to an American. What goes around comes around.
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