http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080128-10.html
On the day of the State of the Union, apparently hoping nobody would
notice, President George W. Bush posted a statement on the White House
website announcing his intention to violate major sections of the Defense
Authorization bill that he just signed into law.[..]
He's decided to close the office that handles Freedom of Information
requests from Congress. He's left Blackwater free but jailed citizens who
reenact its crimes. He's rewritten government reports on global warming.
He's blocked his Justice Departments investigation of political hirings and
firings, while the former governor of Alabama begins his eighth month as a
political prisoner. He's delivered a State of the Union address packed
with the same contemptuous lies as last year's, and announced the seizure of
new powers (which Congress greeted with applause). And then there's the latest
signing statement.
This statement announces in the by now familiar coded language of the
"unitary executive" Bush's intention to violate four key sections of a
bill he is simultaneously making "law."
CQ Today sums up these sections as follows:
"One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in
Iraq and Afghanistan. Another expands protections for whistleblowers who
work for government contractors. A third requires that U.S. intelligence
agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. And a
fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that
exercises U.S. control over Iraq's oil money."
And then there's the latest signing statement ....
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080128-10.html
On the day of the State of the Union, apparently hoping nobody would
notice, President George W. Bush posted a statement on the White House
website announcing his intention to violate major sections of the Defense
Authorization bill that he just signed into law.[..]
He's decided to close the office that handles Freedom of Information
requests from Congress. He's left Blackwater free but jailed citizens who
reenact its crimes. He's rewritten government reports on global warming.
He's blocked his Justice Departments investigation of political hirings and
firings, while the former governor of Alabama begins his eighth month as a
political prisoner. He's delivered a State of the Union address packed
with the same contemptuous lies as last year's, and announced the seizure of
new powers (which Congress greeted with applause). And then there's the latest
signing statement.
This statement announces in the by now familiar coded language of the
"unitary executive" Bush's intention to violate four key sections of a
bill he is simultaneously making "law."
CQ Today sums up these sections as follows:
"One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in
Iraq and Afghanistan. Another expands protections for whistleblowers who
work for government contractors. A third requires that U.S. intelligence
agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. And a
fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that
exercises U.S. control over Iraq's oil money."
On the day of the State of the Union, apparently hoping nobody would
notice, President George W. Bush posted a statement on the White House
website announcing his intention to violate major sections of the Defense
Authorization bill that he just signed into law.[..]
He's decided to close the office that handles Freedom of Information
requests from Congress. He's left Blackwater free but jailed citizens who
reenact its crimes. He's rewritten government reports on global warming.
He's blocked his Justice Departments investigation of political hirings and
firings, while the former governor of Alabama begins his eighth month as a
political prisoner. He's delivered a State of the Union address packed
with the same contemptuous lies as last year's, and announced the seizure of
new powers (which Congress greeted with applause). And then there's the latest
signing statement.
This statement announces in the by now familiar coded language of the
"unitary executive" Bush's intention to violate four key sections of a
bill he is simultaneously making "law."
CQ Today sums up these sections as follows:
"One such provision sets up a commission to probe contracting fraud in
Iraq and Afghanistan. Another expands protections for whistleblowers who
work for government contractors. A third requires that U.S. intelligence
agencies promptly respond to congressional requests for documents. And a
fourth bars funding for permanent bases in Iraq and for any action that
exercises U.S. control over Iraq's oil money."
