Summary
Congress has become an irrelevancy in the Constitution's checks and balances.
Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Vermont Democrat, agreed to commence confirmation hearings for Attorney General-designate Michael B. Mukasey on Oct. 19. With the tacit consent of every United States senator, the chairman dropped his previous insistence that President Bush disclose documents regarding the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program targeting American citizens on American soil in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). Congress had been demanding the documents since Dec. 16, 2005, when the New York Times reported the NSA's illegal spying based on an executive branch leak.See the full content of this document
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Constitutional Decline and Fall?
President Bush had sneered at every disclosure request based on the constitutional theory that neither Congress nor the American people have any business knowing what their government is doing under the banner of national security. According to the pres...
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