{"id":237,"date":"2006-01-12T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T06:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=237"},"modified":"2006-01-11T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T21:35:18","slug":"unchecked-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/unchecked-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchecked Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-\n\ndyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/10\/AR2006011001536.html?referrer=email\">Unchecked Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[I]t might be concluded that the Bush <\/p>\n<p>administration has committed itself to ending the use of practices falling just short of torture that it has used on foreign detainees <\/p>\n<p>since 2002. But it has not. Instead, <strong>it is explicitly reserving the right to abuse prisoners<\/strong>, while denying them any <\/p>\n<p>opportunity to seek redress in court. Having publicly accepted the ban on cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, <strong>Mr. Bush is <\/p>\n<p>planning to ignore it whenever he chooses<\/strong>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The president made his intentions clear in signing the defense bill <\/p>\n<p>containing the McCain amendment last month. Mr. Bush issued a presidential signing statement saying his administration would interpret <\/p>\n<p>the new law &#8220;in a manner consistent with the constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and as <\/p>\n<p>Commander in Chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations on the judicial power.&#8221; The language refers to the assertion by the <\/p>\n<p>president&#8217;s lawyers that his powers allow him, in wartime, to ignore statutes passed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/10\/AR2006011001192.html?referrer=email\">Differing Views on <\/p>\n<p>Terrorism<\/a> By Dan Balz and Claudia Deane, Washington Post Staff Writers<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two in three Americans surveyed said they <\/p>\n<p>believe that federal agencies involved in anti-terrorism activities are intruding on the personal privacy of their fellow citizens, but <\/p>\n<p>fewer than a third said such intrusions are unjustified. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So far, <strong>recent disclosures about domestic spying have not <\/p>\n<p>hurt Bush&#8217;s public standing<\/strong>. According to the poll, his job approval rating stands at 46 percent, down one percentage point <\/p>\n<p>from last month. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Among Republicans, 75 percent said the Bush program is acceptable, while 61 percent of Democrats said it is <\/p>\n<p>unacceptable. Independents called the program unacceptable by a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unchecked Abuse [I]t might be concluded that the Bush administration has committed itself to ending the use of practices falling just short of torture that it has used on foreign detainees since 2002. But it has not. Instead, it is explicitly reserving the right to abuse prisoners, while denying them any opportunity to seek redress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/unchecked-abuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unchecked Abuse<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}