The Imperial Presidency -- Unabridged Power

"The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance." - Eric Hoffer 

"That's the third time I've said that. I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."  -- George W. Bush, May, 2005

"The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them." -- Ramman Kenoun

"NeoCon Admits Iraq War Illegal"  --  The Guardian

"The Art of Saying Nothing",  Alberto Gonzales testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee  --  NYT

Bush's Domestic Spying Scandal:

Conservatives Condemn Domestic Spying

Breaking the Law? Here are the Facts

Bush Broke the Law  --  Charley Reese

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying before 9/11  --  Jason Leopold

 

The State of the Union:

State of Delusion  -- Paul Krugman,  NYT Select

Lying About the State of the Union   --  Molly Ivins

Articles:

"A President Swollen with Power ... "  --  Molly Ivins

Bush Broke the Law  --  Charley Reese

Who Lied Us into War?  --  Chris Moore

The End of 'Unalienable Rights'  --  Robert Parry

Does the President Really Know Best?  -- Tom Engelhardt and Elizabeth de la Vega

Abuse of the Constitution:

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."  -Sir Winston Churchill, November 21, 1943

 Investigator: "US Outsourced Torture"  --  AP

 "Repealing the Magna Carta"  --  Nick Turse

"The Broken Constitution"  -- Nat Hentoff

 

Simply Crazy:

The Wack-Pack  --  William Rivers Pitt

Juggernaut Gathering Momentum  --  Ray McGovern

War with Iran?  --  F. William Engdahl

Blair 'convinced Bush' not to bomb al-Jazeera studios ... in Quatar ... our Ally?!?  -- news.scotsman.com

The leak and Bush's obsession with al-Jazeera -- The Observer