Gore goes Bush on Wiretapping
Wow, there’s something for me to get excited about in US Politics. I’d pretty much given up hope, having wandered off into quiet gloomy apathy.
Once-Nearly US President
I always felt that Gore was a bit too nice and pleasant when he had the presidency manipulated from under him. Now he’s found the passion. Here are some corker quotes showing Gore go on the attack.
He opened with:
As we begin this new year, the Executive Branch of our government has been caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has brazenly declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without regard to the established law enacted by Congress to prevent such abuses.
It is imperative that respect for the rule of law be restored.
And later on…
At present, we still have much to learn about the NSA’s domestic surveillance. What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently.
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of laws and not men. Indeed, they recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution - our system of checks and balances - was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: “The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.”
Go Al! Wanna try for President again? I’m with you.
More coverage in The Nation and The Guardian.
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