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...immediate reaction to the disregard shown by the politicians towards the protest was to wonder why politicians will meet with religious leaders on issues such as gay marriage and abortion, but completely ignore these same leaders when they protest an immoral budget. Pastor Fred Haynes of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas pointed out the hypocrisy of Christian politicians who voted for this bill, saying, “Budgets, in a real sense, reflect your real spirit and your real heart. Don’t tell us about being faith-based, don’t tell us about compassionate conservatism...
...great deal of experience with war powers, according to The New York Times, and it was in his role as a deputy assistant attorney general in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel that he wrote a series of legal opinions arguing that the Bush administration could disregard the Geneva Conventions and use coercive interrogation methods in its battle against terror...
...submitted his senior thesis to the History Department. In his thesis, Chertoff sharply criticized the “incomplete, if not pernicious” utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly a third of the 110-page essay was devoted to attacking what Chertoff saw as Bentham’s disregard for individual rights. But during Chertoff’s more recent record with the Bush administration, his view of individual rights seems to have become less sympathetic. Chertoff has been criticized for being an architect of the White House’s effort to strengthen executive authority, first as head...
...think the Democrats are wrong to protest the wiretapping the Bush Administration is doing in the guise of tracking terrorists [Jan. 16]. Klein is out of touch with the U.S. mainstream. It's not just liberals who are objecting; many conservatives as well are concerned by the flagrant disregard of the law by Bush's approving wiretaps without a warrant or any oversight whatsoever by anyone outside the Executive Branch. Had the President followed the law, there would be no discussion about the wiretaps. If the investigations now under way indeed conclude that the wiretaps are illegal, approving them would...
...suppose that their phones were not being tapped, then we would have little to fear from them. David Palmer Leverett, Massachusetts, U.S. Klein is out of touch with the U.S. mainstream. It's not just liberals but many conservatives as well who are concerned by the flagrant disregard of the law by Bush in his approving wiretaps without a warrant or any oversight whatsoever by anyone outside the Executive Branch. Had the President followed the law, there would be no discussion about the wiretaps. If the investigations now under way indeed conclude that the wiretaps are illegal, approving them would...