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TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General] Senator, well, again ...
I'll say this: the concern I would have about such a prohibition is ...
"What does it mean?" "How do you define it?"
[Narrator] And WHO would define it?
The Bush Administration introduced a new law that would elude the restrictions of the Supreme Court.
[Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell] In a legal sense, I think they wanted to discard the Constitution. And they wanted to write a new one. But you can't do that. So what you do is you throw a new interpretation on the old one.
And the new interpretation is the Executive in wartime -- and perhaps this war is going to last forever --
is all powerful.
[Narrator] Congress gave the President most of what he wanted.
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