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There's nothing 'historic' at all about Bush's supposed shredding of the constitution.
The Bush administration locked up 800 or so Al Qaeda in Gitmo without benefit of habeas corpus. On the other hand, the Roosevelt administration locked up 140,000 Japanese-Americans and 400,000 Wehrmacht and Waffen SS without benefit of habeas corpus, the latter apparently entitled to it according to the Boumedienne decision. And while the Gitmo prisoners received personal Korans for spiritual guidance, I'm sure those poor Wehrmacht and Waffen SS inmates didn't get so much as one copy of Mein Kampf to share.
You Salonistas wet dreaming about a Watergate II ought to remember one difference. Watergate was about snooping on the opposition party to win an election. Bushco 'constitution-shredding' is about snooping on foreign extremists to avert more 9/11s. Think a few more chess moves ahead and imagine what the blowback will be like if, during a prosecution of Bushco for constitution-shredding, a bunch of warrantless-wiretapping candidates and Gitmo alumni pull off another, bigger and better 9/11. Administering the blowback will be the most fun Republicans will have had since tar and feathers went out of style.
