Friday, April 21, 2006

Presidential Authority

Nixon was pardoned for some crimes committed while he was the President of the United States, by President Ford in 1974. (See link for overview of this and other pardons)

Perhaps given the unprecedented secrecy of the current President GW Bush, there should be no pardon given by the next President for the soon to be Past President GW Bush.

I have not enough information to be able to make any judgment of many issues because of the secrecy, I think that there should be a commission given the job of determining if President GW Bush has committed any crimes while President and if he has then he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

There are just too many questions in my mind about some of the decisions made by President GW Bush that should be examined after he leaves office.

Some of the answers I would like to see, and this by no means an exhaustive list:

What involvement has the US had in the extraordinary renditions reported on?

Does the US really have the authority to hold people without trail in Cuba?

Did the President knowingly lie to the world about the reasons for the Iraq war?

These are just the tip of the iceberg there is so much I and the rest of the world just does not know, I for one just simply want the truth.

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