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Title: Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: ‘The President Is Always Right’
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Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/12/president-always-right/
Published: Jul 15, 2006
Author: Amanda
Post Date: 2006-07-23 09:24:43 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 47
Comments: 3
The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department57;s office of legal counsel. When questioned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President57;s interpretation of the Hamdan case was right or wrong, Bradbury replied, "The President is always right." Watch it: Full transcript below: LEAHY: The president has said very specifically, and he's said it to our European allies, he's waiting for the Supreme Court decision to tell him whether or not he was supposed to close Guantanamo or not. After, he said it upheld his position on Guantanamo, and in fact it said neither. Where did he get that impression? The President's not a lawyer, you are, the Justice Department advised him. Did you give him such a cockamamie idea or what? BRADBURY: Well, I try not to give anybody cockamamie ideas. LEAHY: Well, where'd he get the idea? BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we're in a war, that the President's war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That's what the whole case - LEAHY: I don't think the President was talking about the nuances of the law of war paradigm, he was saying this was going to tell him that he could keep Guantanamo open or not, after it said he could. BRADBURY: Well, it's not - LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRABURY: It's under the law of war - LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong? BRADBURY: The President is always right. Poster Comment: Sheesh!
Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: 'The President Is Always Right'
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
How can someone rise to his position without ever having read the Constitution? Strike that, that's probably the only way one can do so after Truman's reorganization which made Congress subservient to to the military.
Quit bogarting that peace, Herbert!
Wish I could but my comp does not support that function. The comments at the end of the original article are most revealing.
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can ever fight; and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings
BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we're in a war, that the President's war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That's what the whole case -
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Watch it - and puke.
War - it's for the children
#3. To: lodwick (#2)
Watch it - and puke.
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