Bush Lawyers Approved Constitution-Free Domestic Military Ops, Docs Show (Wired.com, "Threat Level")
Zitat:
The Justice Department secretly authorized President George Bush to use the military inside the United States to snoop on, raid and even kill citizens in order to fight terrorism without regard to the Fourth or Fifth Amendment, according to a Oct 23, 2001 memo released by the Obama Administration Monday. [...]
American Civil Liberties Union attorney Melissa Goodman says that's why the memos are so disturbing.
"The fact we had the OLC in the business of stretching the law to create an outcome and create legal cover for illegal activities is a dangerous thing," Goodman said. "There is no serious question that the Fourth Amendment applies to U.S. government officials acting on U.S. soil." (Quelle: Blog.Wired.com/27BStroke6)
Threat Level berichtet auch über weitere Memos des "Office of Legal Counsel" (OLC) für die Bush-Regierung, in denen mehr oder weniger durchgängig der Regierung nahegelegt wurde, dass sie nicht auf die Verfassung und Bürgerrechte zu achten habe, wenn es um die Terror-Abwehr gehe.
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