This just goes to show that despite swearing to uphold the Constitution, the current administration feels encumbered by it and avoids following it every time it feels it can get away with it.

Administration's screw-the-law attitude is also made crystal clear in the ongoing evesdropping debacle. The last quote fits perfectly in that case. I also just read that the internal (unofficial) justification for outing Valerie Plame is that the president was acting in self-defence. Notice that this was done after the invasion, so it wasn't a question of defending what they though of as a proper future course of action on Iraq (even that would have smelt of determination to go into war. These day the stench of this fait accompli is unbearable). In other words, he felt that defending his political stature was worth releasing classified information. How dare he criticise then the person(s) who released the information about our European Gulags and illegal evesdropping program. At least they acted in defence of the Constitution.

Sorry about ranting about something other than the subject of your post, but this was the last straw.