Re: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED / WE GOT THE OIL

On Mar 4, 8:02 pm, "George Z. Bush" <georgezb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
mg wrote:
On Mar 3, 4:59 pm, "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Snip)

I believe that a really good, pragmatic way to go forward with this
legal/illegal debate would be for George Bush to provide to Congress
and the American people copies of the documents he received relating
to his legal advice on going to war. The Democrats are in charge of
Congress now and I don't see why they shouldn't demand copies these
documents.

That's not going to happen because a feature of our system called "executive
privilege" which stems from the checks and balances written into our
Constitution by our Founding Fathers. Those checks and balances were
deliberately put in place to keep the executive branch from passing laws and to
keep the legislature from running wars and/or enforcing the very laws they
passed, and to keep both branches from sitting in judgement of the fruits of the
judicial system.

Parenthetically, the legal advice you think might be useful to evaluate is
considered to be what probably would be called "working papers" and as such
would be considered inappropriate evidence since the matter legitimately
investigated has to be limited to the action taken rather than the thinking
(and/or advice) considered leading to that action. Members of the executive
branch are entitled under the law to receive advice and recommendations from
staff members in the course of making decisions and the acceptance or rejection
of that advice (in whole or in part) is judicially immaterial to the decisions
being reviewed.

(Snip)

George Z.

One has to be awestruck at the power a dishonest president of the
United States can wield when he controls both houses of Congress and,
to a large extent, the media also.



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