American Valor

A fantastic episode of Frontline was aired this week. Cheney’s Law

Here’s a breakdown:

• 9/11 created a crisis that everyone wanted to respond to.
• Cheney argues that in order to “protect the country” the president had to be given complete unchecked power.
• Cheney found like minded executive power fundamentalists
• Cheney placed them throughout the beaurecracy to help him push it through.
• Justice department yes-men lawyers made up justifications for the power grab.
• They cowed people by saying, If you try to stop us “American Blood will be on your hands.”
• A president, who wanted to show everybody how tough he was, liked the idea.
• A Republican Congress agreed.
• The President of the United States is now above the law.
• The President of the United States is now able to choose, on his own, which laws he will follow.

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