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>> they believe that a president could do as he liked even if congress, even if the supreme court said he couldn't. >> for three decades, vice president dick cheney led a secretive and bitter behd- + presidential power. >> he believes that the president should have the final word, indeed the only word, on all matters within the executive branch. >> after 9/11, there were enhanced presidential powers to detain, render, interrogate,j]y wiretap. >> mr. president, it is time to have some checks and balances in this country! >> it's a direct showdown constitutionally between the president...

over the past year the justice department has done many good things and should be applauded. the department has renewed its commitment to local law enforcement which has put more officers on the beat and meet our neighborhood safer, helping local communities attract business and economic development. and a stepped-up enforcement on the southwest border be turned the tide on the mexican drug cartels and continue to funnel drugs and crime to cities throughout the country. for the criminal division is increased efforts to root out fraud operations that co...

Suspected of terrorism or at least sympathizing with terrorism. liz cheney's group calling attorneys who worked on gann tan know cases who now work at the justice department, the al qaeda 7. turns out that cheney's allegation hasn't just shocked and outraged bathroom boshevick commie people like me, she's now being blasted by the acting attorney general of bush association. he's a co-founder of the super conservative federalist society. telling t"the new york times" that liz cheney was wrong to attack lawyers who defended guantanamo prisoners. also, john bellinger, former senior council for pr...

Magazine and columnist for politicsdaily.com. david, let me start by asking why so many bush veterans are coming out to push back on this one. >> i think the answer is obvious, lawrence. they just, you know -- they find it just offensive to common decency. you know, you also left out of that very long list john bellinger, who was the legal adviser to the state department in the bush years. he's come out in the last few days. it's only been a few days. i think that if you polled people in the bush administration you can find lots more. this is a clear case when liz cheney has crossed a line. le...

>> and the question is how to formulate policies that get back to both consistency with our values, our international obligations, and to our national interests. in many senses, we have been tasked with unwinding practices that we would not have authorized, had we been in office when they were first encountered. and the primus on this is hard. well, we all know it is a week after a snowstorm, it takes a lot longer to dig out of a snowstorm that it does for it to snow, in the first place. and you can look at it two ways. we got to the snowstorm, why is there still snow on the ground? ...