WSJ Says Treatment of Bush Was "Disgraceful": Administration's Shredding of Constitution Was MORE Disgraceful

I'm at odds with the Wall Street Journal's op-ed piece on how President Bush was treated during the campaign of the last two years.

Frankly, I'm not concerned with what our enemies overseas are thinking. I'm much more concerned about the damage done to our Constitution in the name of national security that this Administration and this President have allowed to occur.

Indefinite detention of people? No habeas corpus? Star chamber justice? Not being allowed to confront their accusers? No trial by jury? No attorneys? No independent judicial review of the cases and sentences? Illegal evidence is allowed? A majority vote to decide guilt, and not a unanimous vote? Torture?

No, the Constitution of the United States is the SUPREME law of the land, and cannot be altered by lesser laws like the Patriot Act or the Military Commission Act of 2006. It's protections cannot be changed until the Constitution is properly amended and voted on as outlined in the Constitution itself. That has NOT happened.

It's true that the country hasn't been attacked since 9/11, but that's because it's easier for terrorists to shoot at American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, rather than trying to infiltrate over here and risk getting caught before being able to do any damage. And our soldiers are more than happy to return the favor and fire back.

I am in complete disagreement with the Wall Street Journal on this issue. The other issues quoted in the article are trivial, compared to the damage that President Bush has done and received criticism on, and rightfully so.

FBI Admits Violating Patriot Act: A Blind Man Could Have Seen This Coming

The FBI has been caught violating the Patriot Act as was predicted.

Whenever you give unlimited power to any person or agency, unlimited abuses will follow. And that's exactly what's happened when the FBI got caught with its hand in the cookie jar by an audit.

"I told you so" doesn't seem to cover it. See my rants throughout 2005 and 2006 on the Patriot Act. I had dropped my overall opposition to the Act in December 2005, but warned that concerns remained about abuses of power.

The question now becomes: how many other agencies have done this too?

Time to start marking up the Patriot Act. It's overdue.

And they had better not think the bad publicity will go away if the FBI director resigns, either. It's going to make the FBI look even worse than it already does.