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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071103/ap_on_re_as/pakistan
Does Bush wish he could do the same here in the US?
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In a national emergency, the president should be able to obtain extraordinary permission from the Supreme Court to “temporarily” circumvent a law.
However, should Congress elect Federal Judges who have top-security clearance and grant them unrestricted access to all the president’s communications, which would include listening in-person to everything the president says in the performance of his (or her) duties, and to everything others tell the president officially; and reviewin all the president’s documents so they can warn the president that something he is planning to do is a violation of the Constitution.
To eliminate error or controversy, government technicians would record all the president’s official communications and save them in secret databases.
If the president executes an unconstitutional action, the judges would report it to Congress and the Supreme Court, and as part of their investigation, both branches could listen behind closed doors to the recordings.
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