Groups On Left, Right Ask Candidates To Reject Bush’s Wider Powers

October 16 2007 by The Systemic Analyst.

The San Francisco Chronicle has reported that several groups have put pressure on U.S. presidential candidates to promise to renounce, once assuming power, sweeping executive powers implemented by the Bush administration.

“President Bush’s drive to expand executive power over surveillance, detention, interrogation and the meaning of new laws has drawn largely ineffectual protests from Congress. But a group of liberals and a handful of prominent conservatives are pressing would-be successors to renounce those powers before they take office.

Both the liberal American Freedom Campaign and the conservative American Freedom Agenda have adopted platforms complaining of administration muscle-flexing on issues ranging from the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Justice Department’s threats to prosecute reporters for espionage.” Click here for more.

The article also provides a detailed account of how executive powers have been increased under the current administration - a very interesting read.

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