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Glenn:
You are right that there is nothing revelatory in this particular story about the Bush administration. But if Congress waits too much longer, and things get much worse, when they finally DO get around to confronting the Bush Administration as they ought to, they may find themselves battling on such radical and foreign ground that they won't even have the benefit of any but the most general legal precedents. It will not be great principles like habeus corpus that bring this Administration to heel, but narrow, targeted and demonstrable contraventions of Congressionally promulgated law. And because Bush et al. are so maniacally focused on turning inches into miles, it seems to me that every Congressional failure to act, from a legal historic perspective, thus becomes an act of tacit commission. I see these headlines and I think, "here's another precedent I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life in some form or another." Just like we seem to be re-living Watergate. But I'm no expert, and I'd love to hear I'm overreacting.
