Another turd in the punchbowl...

"Under our system, a person is presumed innocent and is entitled to due process and a fair trial..." - George W. Bush, 10/28/2005

He failed to add, "Unless I say otherwise...". Just another act of duplicity and hypocrisy by the titular leader of the most corrupt and venal presidency in American history. Under "our system" Jose Padilla has been sitting in a military brig these last three years, held without charge and incommunicado. His right to due process was suspended, not by an act of Congress, but rather by an act of royal fiat by an imperial president...A president who sees himself and his administration as being above the law.

The indictment of "Scooter" Libby did not cow the President, you could see in his face and by his demeanor that he was deeply angry. Angered by the affrontery of a special prosecutor who had the affrontery to actually follow the letter and spirit of the law in applying it to his administration? Perhaps.

America is in the grips of a Constitutional crisis brought on by an administration brought about by an administration which, while paying lip service to the Constution and the rule of law, willing flouts the very same precepts. The outcome of "Scooter" Libby's trial will be key in determining whether or not we remain a Constitutional Republic, or become an oligarchy.