By DAVE LINDORFF, CounterPunch.org, 6/28/06
Over the course of the past year, it
has been discovered that President Bush, during his five years
in office, has cancelled all or part of 750 laws of Congress,
quietly and with the stroke of a pen. These so-called “signing
statements” have been used to invalidate laws passed by
Congress to do everything from require government reporting on
the uses of the Patriot Act’s invasive provisions to banning
torture and establishing a special investigator for corruption
in Iraq. [read more]