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John Dean: Bush almost became an “unconstitutional dictator”
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by TheCameraObscura | March 3, 2009 at 07:31 pm
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It was during the Civil War that President Abraham Lincoln became known as a “constitutional dictator,” said former Nixon White House counsel John Dean during a Monday broadcast of MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Responding to the recent release of several legal justifications for President Bush’s most criticized policies, Dean summarized, “Reading these memos, you’ve gotta almost conclude we had an unconstitutional dictator. It’s pretty deadly and pretty serious, what’s in these materials.”
The memos, released by Obama’s Justice Department on Monday, outline possible methods for the president to ignore treaties and International laws, kidnap and torture American citizens and overrule the First Amendment to the Constitution which ensures freedom of speech and of the press.
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at 21:15 on March 3rd, 2009
Lincoln was worse. Remember well this accusation as Obama goes into his term. Watch how dissident voices are treated. Watch how history gets rewritten to match political needs.
at 11:41 on March 4th, 2009
Lincoln was worse?
Perhaps you an remind us when Lincoln lied about WMD, invaded a foreign country (he was actually called a traitor for opposing the Mexican-American War), killed over half a million people in a foreign country, set up torture protocol, lied about the torture protocol (Dick Cheney called Gitmo a 'resort"), practiced rendition to foreign countries for torture, and exposed those working undercover for the Union (as the White House did to CIA operative Valerie Plame).