Saturday, October 25, 2008
The Bushoviks break another law
A seemingly innocuous law, but one that was enacted to prevent the Bushoviks from continuing their Stalinist refusals to provide necessary information to Congress.
The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.I'm no lawyer, I don't even pretend to be one on the curbstone, but I have to believe that any penalty deriving from this act should be applicable during the next administration. And the country would be well served with a few good prosecutions.
The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and requires that the reports be submitted directly to Congress “without any prior comment or amendment” by superiors at the department or the White House.
But newly disclosed documents show that the Justice Department issued a legal opinion last January questioning the basis for that restriction, and that Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, later advised Congress that the administration would not “apply this provision strictly” because it infringed on the president’s powers.
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