Attorney General Mukasey: The President Can Abolish Congress

This morning AG Mukasey and White House Press Secretary Dana Perino announced the new NSA spying program, which doesn't require warrants in order to initiate a wiretap. The new plan, by Mr. Mukasey's own admission, violates FISA requirements. Mr. Mukasey says that the President has the power to amend any act of congress, even the constitution itself, with the use of an executive order. He claimed that the President can legally do, quite literally, whatever he wants, until the congress or the courts over rule him. When asked, by UACL media representative Michael Soneff, whether or not the President can abolish congress and the judiciary, AG Mukasey declined to comment. This should raise some serious questions in the hearts and minds of all Americans. The Head of the Department of Justice, the Attorney General of the United States, claims that the President has the constitutional authority to unilaterally amend laws passed by congress. Dana Perino has admitted that this executive order literally contradicts standing law. That means that the President has violated an act of congress and overridden judicial precedent. These acts on the part of the executive are outrageous.
Furthermore, When asked what is more important, civil liberties or national security, the Attorney General answered without a doubt, national security. He continued by arguing that because the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution later, the Civil Liberties protected in this document should take second place to the security of the country. Does Mr. Mukasey not realize that the Bill of Rights was the provision that allowed for the ratification of the Constitution and to this day upholds our most essential rights as American citizens? It is appalling that he would seek to deny the value of such an important part of our nation's highest law.


by: Michael Soneff