Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak

bush...
what a scum.

the one guy in america, that should push for 'truth and justice', but does this instead.


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CIA_LEAK?SITE=UT...NAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

and here:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/16/white-h...ts-in-cia-leak-case/

and here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,383721,00.html

I'm more shocked that you quoted FOX news!

There's a lot of stuff going on in the last 20 years that this govt. has done that isn't quite right.

Actually you could go back to the Christmas Eve vote many years ago to allow the Federal Reserve Bank to do what it does -- all without amending the Constitution.

Which is sort of similar to discussions of how propping up Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (if that happens) is unconstitutional and actually may be illegal (fraud) even to discuss by the president and others.

Lot of shady stuff going down. No worries, Bush is almost gone. Then we can beat up on Obama

i'm afraid the worries are just beginning.

all the carnage that bush will leave behind, americans will have to shove down their own throats, for many years to come.

housing fiasco, is just the tip of the iceburg.

housing/economy crisis has to do with monetary policy of the Federal Reserve and the price of a barrel of oil. Not a lot any president can do. Lifting the ban on offshore oil would spook the speculators enough to keep them from betting on supply shortages - which will help short term. But, without the follow through of actually bringing the oil up in the next five years or getting alternative fuel online quickly we're in deep poo. Buy gold bullion and hide it in a safe, we could see gold hit $1,500 to $2,000 by January, I've heard.

Many problems have been simmering just below the surface for a lot of years. Has zip to do with Bush or Clinton on and on. This has been brewing for a while.

Now we're in a trap, we rely on the Fed for everything, but... the rub is that the Fed can do nothing now, it's painted itself in to a corner where the unthinkable has happened. They printed so much money now and lowered interest rates so much that the dollar is worth 40 cents or whatever, increasingly America's debt is piled up in Japan and China, and because of oil prices and housing it can't raise interest rates back up to head off inflation or a depression at worst (depending on if any banks in large number fail like Indymac) without dumping the real estate market right off the cliff. If real estate goes while gas pump prices are this high it's predicted that this brings on the recession or depression that much more quickly.

Regardless of who is elected next, taxes will increase in order to cover all of these failed mortgages that banks handed out like candy to babies. There may be an actual push for government to prop up the two mortgage banks, however there is a ton of talk out there that this actually violates the equal protections clause of the constitution and would inevitably be stopped. Tax payers propping up two priveledged banks while others fail, etc.

That's what I've heard and read. FWIW.

Bad, bad, shit. But hey, Ross Perot was predicting this stuff 15 years ago, just like Ron Paul was shouting it this time. Voters don't listen (it's not sexy or scandalous), the mortgage banks have resisted regulation through favors given by lobbyists, and no one but a very few actually seem to know what's going on.

It's actually crazy.

quote:

Not a lot any president can do.

hm. i disagree.

there are three federal agencies having primary responsibility for regulating the current US banking industry. These agencies include: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), the Farm Credit Administration (FCA), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), and the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB).


the president is in charge of overseeing the regulators and these agencies.

to look the other way, and give bush a pass, is just simply head in the sand.

he has current advisors, current monitoring, and it's his decisions, and his current policies, that have to deal with whatever situation he inherits when he takes office.
8 years ago........

but the topic here, is hiding the truth, behind executive priveledge.

abuse of executive power.

there's no denying it, and it will take some strong backs, to deal with this properly.

president george w. bush's father, the former president bush, has said:

"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who expose the names of our sources. They are, in my view, the most indidious of traitors."

"Neither the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances." - US v Nixon