Criminals and dictators in high places - Bush's secret memos

George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and many others within the Bush administration are criminals. Bush, in particular, violated his oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States on numerous occasions.

This is not a matter of opinion.


The Obama administration has released seven memos (9 legal opinions) from the Bush Justice Department. Marjorie Cohn has put together an excellent article summarizing how these memos effectively allowed Bush and cronies to shred the Constitution and provide for an imperial presidency with unlimited power - answerable to no one!

"The memos provide 'legal' rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties. According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state. [Emphasis mine.]

The memos were written for the most part by John Yoo and Jay Bybee, "authors of the so-called 'torture memos' that redefined torture much more narrowly than the U.S. definition of torture, and counseled the President how to torture and get away with it."

These memos were later withdrawn when they became public, but the damage had been done. "...they remained in effect long enough to authorize the torture and abuse of many prisoners in U.S. custody."


Steven Benen at the Washington Monthly noted that "Yoo, Bybee & Co. believed the 'war on terror' trumped the Fourth Amendment. What's more, the First Amendment 'may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.' Posee Comitatus isn't mandatory. Congress has no authority to address federal detention policies. FISA doesn't necessarily apply to national security considerations."


During the Bush administration, the terrorists, for all practical purposes won the battle. The Constitution was ignored or more aptly, shredded. Bush continued to talk about "democracy," and how we were fighting to bring "democracy" to Iraq. That was all bullshit, for he was destroying the very fibers of democracy at home!

Because he broke his oath to uphold the Constitution, George W. Bush should be tried for treason in a court of law, by a jury of his peers. Being president does not mean he is above the law.

Additionally, John Yoo, who is still on the faculty of the Berkeley Law School and currently a visiting professor at Chapman University SChool of Law in Orange County, California, as well as Jay Bybee, a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, should be, as Ms. Cohn suggests, "investigated, prosecuted, and disbarred. Yoo should be fired and Bybee impeached."


Read Marjorie Cohn's entire article here.

You can read the memos here.