As Glenn Greenwald makes clear, Bush has applied his claim to be above the law far beyond the issue of wiretaps. Bush has acted on the belief that he may seize anyone, even an American citizen living within the United States, and hold him as he deems fit in a military prison, there to be subject to harsh treatment that does not fall short of torture. Greenwald has rendered an inestimable service by his clear and cogent analysis of gross presidential usurpation of power. FULL ARTICLE
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