Ford's legacy - unlimited presidential powers
robert parry, holding to his usual high standards of meticulous and thorough research, reportage, and articulate and comprehensive journalism, lays out the good and bad of the ford administration, and connects the latter half of ford's term to the abuses of power we are witnessing today...
it is this insistence on unfettered presidential power that presents the current grave threat to the u.s... i hope that in 2007 we will all wise up to the fact that the smoke screen of "terrorism" only serves to hide bushco's real agenda... Submit To Propeller
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With George H.W. Bush as the new CIA director in 1976, Ford joined in blocking the release of a congressional report on past CIA abuses and went along with Bush’s cover-up of new CIA scandals, including a Chilean-sponsored terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., that killed a Chilean dissident and an American woman.
Ford gave another boost to the revival of the imperial presidency by credentialing Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, who served as White House chiefs of staff. A quarter century later, Rumsfeld and Cheney would provide the intellectual framework for George W. Bush’s assertion of “plenary” – or unlimited – presidential powers.
it is this insistence on unfettered presidential power that presents the current grave threat to the u.s... i hope that in 2007 we will all wise up to the fact that the smoke screen of "terrorism" only serves to hide bushco's real agenda... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
1/01/2007
