WASHINGTON -- President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit reports by the Homeland Security Department about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watch lists. In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated that no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security Department activities that affect privacy, including complaints.
But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency's 2007 spending bill, said he will interpret that section "in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch."
Article II, Section 3, go sit over there with the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th amendments, and all those other "unnecessary" and "obsolete" provisions. It was nice knowing you.
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Hmm, editing reports to replace the truth with a more convenient "truth"?
Wait a minute, I know how this works: Up is down, black is white and the right is wrong.
Please use this link to view Keith Olberman's commentary on MSNBC the other night. This guy has the balls the demos need to grow in the coming weeks!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2946640377253815500&q=keith+oberman&hl=en
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