"The recent disclosures underscore the Bush administration's extraordinarily sweeping conception of executive power," said Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project. "The administration's lawyers believe the president should be permitted to violate statutory law, to violate international treaties, and even to violate the Fourth Amendment inside the U.S. They believe that the president should be above the law."
Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does Not Apply To Military Operations Within U.S.
The US military carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing...
