NEW YORK – A newly disclosed secret memo authored by the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in March 2003 that asserts President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations of detainees also reveals a radical interpretation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The memo, declassified yesterday as the result of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, cites a still-secret DOJ memo from 2001 that found that the "Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations."
This means that President Bush is saying that if he were to institute a military action inside our borders (even against our own citizens) that the law would no longer apply. This is a flat out literal repudiation of the Constitution and our the rights granted to us as citizens.
How can anyone continue to support this administration?!
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