It should bother every American to see how close we came to a total dictatorship.
"The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer.
For instance, the document that Addington took for Ashcroft to sign while he was in the hospital was one which said the Executive Branch was not accountable to either Congress or the Courts during "wartime". None of the top 5 attorneys in the Justice Department would sign it, leaving the White House Counsel Gonzalez to do so.
It was a near thing.
One would expect Republicans to be distressed over the subversion of the rule of law, too. I don't understand it.
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