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"If you thought George Bush was bad when it comes to the use of military force, wait 'til you see John McCain."

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Liza Persson

President, which considers the executive branch to be a single

unit under the sole direction of the President, and according to this

theory of the unitary Executive, the legislative branch of Government

may not instruct executive branch agencies in the performance

of their duties…//… The Congress, you all, may require a Federal agency to report on some matter, but at best that requirement simply becomes a suggestion and probably one that will not be taken too seriously….//…any Presidential assertion of the right to ignore the law must be challenged or it will become precedent.

…//…I may not agree with the policies of the next

President. And future Presidents can rely on that unchallenged assertion”

 

 

McCain will be presented with the smorgasbord of greatly expanded powers of the President, thanks to the work of many I laid out in my article The Silent Coup – How a nation ruled by law, becomes a nation ruled by men.

Expanded Executive Branch under Presidential Control

Along with this comes the access to an Executive branch which has grown both more numerous, better funded, more secretive and less checked, and immensely more powerful in its’ capacities.

The US intelligence community will, in only a few years, be the central piece in a global web of surveillance and control of people’s communication and behavior.

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