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6/10/2006

 

Loosening of Associations
Originally uploaded by Night Heron.

Loosening of Associations is the generic description of thought in which the logicality and sequentiality of the ideas breaks down (The association between ideas is beginning to break down and the thread connecting the thoughts is loosening).

Bush Could Bypass New Torture Ban
Waiver right is reserved

By Charlie Savage, Boston Globe Staff | January 4, 2006

WASHINGTON -- When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief.
After approving the bill last Friday, Bush issued a ''signing statement" -- an official document in which a president lays out his interpretation of a new law -- declaring that he will view the interrogation limits in the context of his broader powers to protect national security. This means Bush believes he can waive the restrictions, the White House and legal specialists said.

Some legal specialists said yesterday that the president's signing statement, which was posted on the White House website but had gone unnoticed over the New Year's weekend, raises serious questions about whether he intends to follow the law.

And in 2002, the administration drafted a secret legal memo holding that Bush could authorize interrogators to violate anti-torture laws when necessary to protect national security. After the memo was leaked to the press, the administration eliminated the language from a subsequent version, but it never repudiated the idea that Bush could authorize officials to ignore a law.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/01/04/bush_could...

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060113.html

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/01/bush-assertions-on...

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BJ 6/10/2006 10:32:00 PM