The Cheney Plan to Deploy the US Military on US Soil

[dreamdancer 0]

just another bit of paper being ripped up...

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This new report today from The New York Times' Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston reveals an entirely unsurprising though still important event: in 2002, Dick Cheney and David Addington urged that U.S. military troops be used to arrest and detain American citizens, inside the U.S., who were suspected of involvement with Al Qaeda. That was done pursuant to a previously released DOJ memo (.pdf) authored by John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, addressed to Alberto Gonzales, dated October 23, 2001, and chillingly entitled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the U.S." That Memo had concluded that the President had authority to deploy the U.S. military against American citizens on U.S. soil. Far worse, it asserted that in exercising that power, the President could not bound either by Congressional statutes prohibiting such use (such as the Posse Comitatus Act) or even by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which -- the Memo concluded -- was "inapplicable" to what it called "domestic military operations."

Though it received very little press attention, it is not hyperbole to observe that this October 23 Memo was one of the most significant events in American politics in the last several decades, because it explicitly declared the U.S. Constitution -- the Bill of Rights -- inoperative inside the U.S., as applied to U.S. citizens. Just read what it said in arguing that neither the Fourth Amendment -- nor even the First Amendment -- can constrain what the President can do when overseeing "domestic military operations" (I wrote about that Memo when it was released last March and excerpted the most revealing and tyrannical portions: here). Here's just a small sample to convey the rancid taste of that Memo:

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[Rookie120 0]

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just another bit of paper being ripped up...

And bandwith being wasted!

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[FallingOsh 0]

So the Bush administration made the proper decision.

Copy.

Thanks for another well-thought-out post.

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[Andy9o8 0]

Cheney's trampling of the Constitution has, thank god, become as old news as Clinton's blow jobs. Time to focus on real issues of the day that affect people's lives, like the coverup of Obama not having really been born on Earth.

[likearock 1]

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Time to focus on real issues of the day that affect people's lives, like the coverup of Obama not having really been born on Earth.

I have proof!

[RonD1120 58]

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Time to focus on real issues of the day that affect people's lives, like the coverup of Obama not having really been born on Earth.

I have proof!

And he believes it.

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(glad we got rid of that guy, though)

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[Gawain 0]

...and President Bush said "no."

End of story.

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!