Several Bush/Cheney Memos Secret Memos Not Secret Any Longer
If there’s one thing the Bush/Cheney Administration loved, it was secrecy. They would say the president had the power to authorize things like shipping enemy combatants to other countries to be softened up, write a memo or legal opinion, then lock it away. Today, several of these memos were released by the U.S. Dept. of Justice after years of being locked in someone’s safe there.
Now, these legal opinions may see the light of day where scholars and the public can judge their merits.
Why should you care? Because we elect presidents to exercise their power within the bounds of the Constitution, existing laws and treaty obligations. This is the rule of law. We deserve to know whether or not the law is being observed or bent to the will of maniacs like DICK Cheney and David Addington.
A Republican Vice-President has a secret energy meeting and the press talk about conspiracies. Let Biden go into a secret AFL-CIO meeting… where’s the transparency?