Mr. Bushit, I herewith return your presidency and your oath of office and mark it
CANCELED
or I would like to but my bloody congressman can find nothing criminal in your conduct.
My congressman, by the way, is one Adam Smith, Ninth Congressional District of the State of Washington. He, along with Nancy Pelosi and her crowd, are complicit in the misconduct of this infamous team of Bushit and Cheney.
Bushit has a letter to the House of Representatives regarding their recent bill to ban torture, H.R. 2082:
To the House of Representatives:
I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 2082, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008." The bill would impede the United States government’s efforts to protect the American people effectively from terrorist attacks and other threats because it imposes several unnecessary and unacceptable burdens on our Intelligence Community....
The thing who calls himself president has problems with Section 444 because Senate confirmation requirements on two national security positions, the director of the National Security Agency and the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, would not be abject obeisance to the will of the Great Dictator -- and they might take their time looking over nominations.
Section 413 would create a new inspector general who might hold the intelligence community accountable. I believe that Bushit has essentially defunded and deballed the office of the existing inspector generals and this might cause some problems for him, because the thing who calls himself president has always had a problem with accountability -- and responsibility.
Section 327 is absolutely horrible because it limits the CIA and FBI to interrogation tactics delineated in the Army Field Manual. Most especially, the CIA MUST HAVE ITS VERY OWN EXQUISITE AND EXCRUCIATING TACTICS OF INTERROGATION!
He goes on with the usual crapola argument:
My disagreement over section 327 is not over any particular interrogation technique; for instance, it is not over waterboarding, which is not part of the current C.I.A. program. Rather, my concern is the need to maintain a separate C.I.A. program that will shield from disclosure to Al Qaeda and other terrorists the interrogation techniques they may face upon capture.
Wooh! Omigawd! Stifling Bushit's penchant for secrecy. How dare Congress?
And, what about Bushit's precious executive prerogatives?
.... While I will continue to work with the Congress on the implementation of laws passed in this area in recent years, I cannot sign into law a bill that would prevent me, and future presidents, from authorizing the C.I.A. to conduct a separate, lawful intelligence program, and from taking all lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack.
Other provisions of the bill purport to require the executive branch to submit information to the Congress that may be constitutionally protected from disclosure ...
Then, there is that damnable Section 468 which would allow Congressional scrutiny...
In addition, section 406 would require a consolidated inventory of Special Access Programs (S.A.P.’s) to be submitted to the Congress. Special Access Programs concern the most sensitive information maintained by the government, and S.A.P. materials are maintained separately precisely to avoid the existence of one document that can serve as a roadmap to our nation’s most vital information. The executive branch must be permitted to present this information in a manner that does not jeopardize national security.
Sigh! Well, this is an election year.
And I'm shopping around for a new congressman. Someone who respects the Constitution of the United States and its provisions for balancing power amongst the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Oh yeah, and the government BY the people, FOR the people -- and lastly, OF the people thingy. That's the way I read it.
The way I read it, I, a citizen and voter, am the absolute ruler, me and all those other citizens and voters. We elect legislative representatives to enact laws on our behalf, laws to keep our society in a relatively orderly state, laws that ensure our welfare and the right to pursue happiness, laws that ensure our right to speak, artistically express ourselves, print pamphlets, letters and newspapers about our beliefs, the right to privacy regarding our persons, documents and households, Habeas Corpus, Posse Comitatus (no military police looking over our shoulders, that kind of thing), all those nice things put down in our Constitution...