July 05, 2013

If They Can Lie About NSA/Snowden, They Can Lie About Syria and Iran

There's a culture in much of Washington that believes that government officials can do and say whatever they want, so long as it's in the service of the Empire. It's the foreign policy version of Nixon's "If the President does it, it's not illegal." That may be useful for running an Empire, or it may not, but it's not the rule of law. If it's illegal for Joe and Mary Schmoe to do it, it's illegal for the president and his or her lieutenants to do it - that's the rule of law.
***Read article at Truthout***

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