[Vision2020] How things change

[Donovan Arnold]

Sunil,
 
How can the President have these powers over US citizens without Congress declaring war? Abraham Lincoln  and FDR were the only individuals that had this kind of power on US soil that I am aware of because of war. Doesn't all authority given to the government, in theory anyway, have to come from the people or Constitution? 
 
Donovan Arnold
 

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 From: Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
To: vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:45 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] How things change
  

 
From Glenn Greenwald today:

"But this is one of the towering, unanswerable hypocrisies of Democratic Party politics. The very same faction that pretended for years to be so distraught by Bush’s mere eavesdropping on and detention of accused Terrorists without due process is now perfectly content to have their own President kill accused Terrorists without due process, even when those targeted are 
their fellow citizens: obviously a far more Draconian and permanent 
abuse than eavesdropping or detention (identically, the very same 
faction that objected to Bush’s radical whole-world-is-a-Battlefield theory now must embrace exactly that theory to justify how someone riding in a car, or sitting at home, or sleeping in his bed, in a country where no 
war is declared, is “on a battlefield” at the time the CIA ends his 
life)."

Entire column:

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/leon_panettas_explicitly_authoritarian_decree/singleton/

Sunil
 
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