Let it be noted that our attorney general has certain 'issues' that prevent him from thinking clearly and concisely, and within the parameters of a generally accepted legal/logical frameworks.
I think he's drugged with the best meds the US pharmaceutical industry can provide, or he's a compulsive lawyer.... oops, liar... He sounds quite like a financial analyst trying to explain how the numbers support the belief. Excerpts from the exchange between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Jan. 17: Gonzales: There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away. ... Specter: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take it away except in cases of rebellion or invasion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus unless there's an invasion or rebellion? Gonzales: I meant by that comment, the Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas. Doesn't say that. It simply says the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended except... Specter: You may be treading on your interdiction and violating common sense, Mr. Attorney General. Source: Senate Judiciary Committee transcript "Specter was incredulous, asking how the Constitution could bar the suspension of a right that didn't exist -- a right, he noted, that was first recognized in medieval England as a shield against the king's power to dispatch troublesome subjects to royal dungeons."
