This is a comment I left over at Brave Humans, which I thought was repeating.
If advisers are giving advise that is either illegal or questionably unethical, and there is no ramifications (checks and balances) for the advise they are giving, who or what is able to stop them from doling out this advise? Any person needs to be able to be accountable for the advise or recommendations they provide, especially if some one, in the case the POTUS acts upon that advise.
I know this is a very extreme example but it is the first I could think of. This privilege which Bush is provoking is like Hitler saying that none of his adviser (Goering, Goebels, Himmlers and their minions) were not accountable for the policies they implemented.
A government and the members of the bureaucracy needs to be responsible to the people who have put them in charge to be able to justify the actions. Here in the US, we have 3 branches of government to execute these checks and it is the right one (Congress) to check the other (Executive) and allowing one to flaunt its authority to the other is just bad policy.
And finally, if the Bush administration really didn't do anything wrong, as they have claimed from the beginning, what is the problem with having the aides testify?
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The problem is that there is much to hide there. I fail to see how he can keep invoking Executive Privelege and not have to answer to us for anything. I think his continuing to do this has caused even his staunchest supporters to become suspicious..except for those in his inner circle I suppose.
unfortunately if his staunchest supporters have lost faith, they are not saying anything publicly and allowing this behavior to continue.
Maybe it really is about Rummy and Cheney old assertion that they started in the Ford administration, that the Executive Branch does need to be not only strengthen, but stronger than the other allegedly equal branches of governments.
Thanks for the comment
Good point Jeff, or maybe it is just about the Bush-Cheney Administration believing that they are above the Law?
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