When the 9/11 Commission was finally established, Congress allowed a former Bush administration insider to serve as the executive director and appointed co-chairmen who thought that the executive director was just fine. It came as no surprise when a thoroughly inadequate report was produced with key sections blacked out.
Illegal wars, the stripping of fundamental rights like habeas corpus, the declaration that presidents have the right to assassinate U.S. citizens by executive order, the rendering of charges without having to specify those charges were all ratified by Congress. It must be legal. Didn't Congress pass a law?
But they couldn't do this without the full cooperation of the judicial branch of government. Surely, our Supreme Court and federal judiciary are the last bastion of the law that is to protect us all.
Even if that were the case, the sheer weight of executive and legislative lawlessness presents an overwhelming tide that is irresistible to those in power. The seamless system of self-supporting lawlessness is an efficient structure denying citizen rights by mocking the laws of the nation.
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