White House Tells Musharraf: Never â??Restrict Constitutional Freedomsâ?? To Fight Terror

hahaha...this is a joke. from a government that administration after administration has systematically dismantled the constitution...

White House Tells Musharraf: Never â??Restrict Constitutional Freedomsâ?? To Fight Terror [align=left] Think Progress
Tuesday November 6, 2007[/align]
During todayâ??s White House press briefing, spokeswoman Dana Perino condemned Gen. Pervez Musharrafâ??s declaration of â??emergency ruleâ?� in Pakistan. She said that the administration is â??deeply disappointedâ?� by the measure, which suspends the countryâ??s constitution, and believes it is never â??reasonableâ?� to â??restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorismâ?�:
Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?
MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.
Watch it:

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The Bush administration never suspended the U.S. Constitution; instead, it interpreted the document so broadly as to provide all the powers they desired. A look at some of the ways the White House has overstepped its constitutional powers in the name of national security:
First Amendment: In September, a federal judge ruled that the FBIâ??s use of secret â??national security lettersâ?� to obtain citizensâ?? personal data from private companies for counterterrorism investigations â??violate[d] the First Amendment and constitutional provisions on the separation of powers.â?�
First Amendment, Fourth Amendment: In Aug. 2006, a federal district court in Detroit ruled that the Bush administrationâ??ss NSA warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional, violating the â??separation of powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III.â?�
Article I: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June, then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attempted to justify the administrationâ??s detainee policy by claiming, â??There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution.â?� (Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the Contitution reads: â??The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.â?�)
Article II: In June, House investigators revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney had exempted his office from an executive order order designed to safeguard classified national security information by claiming that he was not an â??entity within the executive branch.â?� (Read the duties of the Vice President, outlined in Article II of the Constitution HERE.)
Musharraf also complained of â??judicial activismâ?� to justify his declaration of emergency rule. Despite Perinoâ??s comments, Musharraf seems to have taken a page from the White House playbook.

It just goes to prove to me that Bush is the biggest hypocrite walking man.

You gotta love this bible thumping, egotistical shithead we have for a president. Do you think he just says this shit or does he actually believe in his miond that he is following the constitution? Could he be that demented? Maybe he's like Reagan was.lights were on but nobody was home.