Capricious, ash tear or made sense. The Supreme Court in boumedin struck it down saying it was not an adequate substitute for habeas. Thats correct, senator. Your role was to find out a way to engage congress on the Detainee Treatment because it was your view that congress, being involved, would strengthen the president s hand . As a lawyer . Yes. I was not a policymaker but i did advise. As a lawyer. As did many others. There were very other many fine lawyers, too, senator, who advised the administration that Engaging Congress would be a good idea, because we had read our youngstown and our justice jackson. Any lawyer i think who understands this area of the law would suggest the president is stronger when he has congressional support. The Signing Statement. Is it fair to say there was a conflict between the Vice President s office and other parts of the Bush Administration about what the Signing Statement
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you through, there s a difference between the law of war and domestic criminal law. do you agree with that? yes, senator. that a common criminal, the goal of the law is to prosecute a crime that one individual or group committed against another individual or groups. that s correct? that s right. the law of war is about winning the war? well, senator, there are how you fight the war there are as you know, rules about that, too. right. laws about that. yes and we re fighting an enemy who has no rules that would do anything, and i ve been in the camp i don t want to be like them, i this i that s their weakness and the strongest thing we could do is stand up for a process that stood the test of time, which is intelligence gathering and a humane way, because they would cut our heads off doesn t make us weak because tut the heads off. it actually mak us stronger over the arc of time, so that s my commercial about that. so there will be more litigat n