Gonzales the "highest legal authority"?
Last night on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stuck up for Bush and his authorization of warrant-less wiretaps and searches administered to American citizens. Here’s the quote …
“The President spoke to this earlier and the Attorney General, who is, after all, the highest legal authority in the country, has spoken to this.”
Anything about that statement strike you as odd? Is the Attorney General really the “highest legal authority in the country”? I could’ve sworn we had something called the Supreme Court …
But then again, “we are living in a different world after 9/11,” as Dick Cheney has said so many times. Up has become down; right has become wrong. And Bush’s appointee actually is the highest legal authority. At least, he will be after they take the power by force.
Is it just me, or are these people trying really, really hard to usurp as much power as possible?
