The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the office of the White House Counsel are preparing a draft document laying out the President's wartime authority to remain in office past 2008, The Register has learned.
The scheme is described as an emergency "continuity presidency," made necessary by the extraordinary circumstances and unique challenges of protecting the United States from the threat of international terrorism.
"The world changed on 9/11," a confidential DoJ memo obtained by The Register explains, "and no Administration in US history is better suited to adapt productively to those changes than this one...
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Sunday Drive By
April Fools' from the U.K.'s Guardian:
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I'd sure like to get my mitts on those documents, Lurch.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that's true, but with this administration, legal memos have tended to lead to specific actions.
ReplyDeleteWell, most organization plan how to repsond to contingencies. This administration seems to plan to create them.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if any of the administration in their thirst for expanded power has considered that repealing this Amendment would allow Bill Clinton to run in 2008?
ReplyDeleteJoffan,
ReplyDeleteYou are now probably responsible for the worst nightmare Karl Rove ever had. Thank you.
Jeebus. Someone's been swimming face down in the dammed kool-aid too long.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that two-thirds of the states would EVER ratify said amendment, and I think that we can all be happy about that. The country is too "fifty-fifty" and not enough "sixtysix-thirtythree". ;p
ReplyDeleteSadiq,
ReplyDeleteWell said. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that would survive the ammendment process.
And maybe that's a good thing.