 |  1095105 | Oct 17, 2007 8:32pm | From the page: "David could be very, very aggressive in his arguments, sometimes personal and ad hominem, often mixed with precedents, arguments, knowledge, directions from the president. It was a bombastic mixture of argumentative strategies. ...
There were two questions that Addington always asked: "Do you think we have the power on our own to do what we're doing?" And the answer was yes, there were good legal arguments for it.
The second question was: "Is it possible that if we go to Congress the president might not get what he wants, and the Congress might place restrictions on the president, and the president might conceivably be left in a weaker position, thereby making it harder for him to protect Americans?" And the answer to that question was always yes. Those two questions usually ended the argument..."
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/themes/addington.html [pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/themes/addington.html]
read this page...then watch the video -- pbs put the entire broadcast online for free -- it is one of the scariest, eye-opening, mind-blowing videos i've ever seen. it really does a great job of allowing us to experience, from the inside, the unbelievable twists of law, tyranny, and utterly wreckless actions the bush administration is carrying out every day... |
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