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Puh-leeze!  Don't you think the timing of the Foley email "leak" is suspicious?  Don't you think yet another sex scandal is a good way to take the media's and public's minds off the fact that on 28 September 2006, Congress passed, and the President signed on the following day, "A bill to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes."

This bill is a "get out of jail free card" for the Administration. It is more vicious than the proposed "compromise bill," and defiles our Constitution.

Don't dignify the Republicrats' leak when anyone who sells a tv or computer time to someone, who is later adjudged to be an "unlawful enemy combatant," can be thrown into prison, without so much as a habeas corpus, based on information gathered without a warrant.

That new law is what we need to be screaming about -- not another sitting Congressman who took advantage of his position.  Maybe we should just get rid of all the opportunities available to White House interns and Congressional pages.

by pfletch on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 06:30:47 AM EST



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