Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms Bush’s Legacy
WASHINGTON — President Bush on Saturday further cemented his legacy of fighting for strong executive powers, using his veto to shut down a Congressional effort to limit the Central Intelligence Agency’s latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques.
Mr. Bush vetoed a bill that would have explicitly prohibited the agency from using interrogation methods like waterboarding, a technique in which restrained prisoners are threatened with drowning and that has been the subject of intense criticism at home and abroad. Many such techniques are prohibited by the military and law enforcement agencies.
The veto deepens his battle with increasingly assertive Democrats in Congress over issues at the heart of his legacy. . . . Mr. Bush’s veto — the ninth of his presidency, but the eighth in the past 10 months with Democrats in control of Congress — underscored his determination to preserve many of the executive prerogatives his administration has claimed in the name of fighting terrorism, and to enshrine them into law.--read entire article--
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Enshrine them into law. Enshrine means to 'hold sacred.' Enforced in this country by Michael Chertoff's inability to get anything right, backed by Blackwater brown-shirted thugs as necessary. That's a sacred trust if I ever saw one.
The New York Times in an extreme of reportorial insolence, uses the word 'legacy' (three times) while announcing to the nation that this president, who constantly and irritatingly lies to us that 'we do not torture,' has just vetoed a bill that requires him not to torture.
This, they claim breathlessly, is in defense of his legacy. The word legacy has been widely misused concerning what presidents leave behind them, more often appropriate to pooper-scoopers than archives. It has an undeserved positive connotation;
- Law. a gift of property, esp. personal property, as money, by will; a bequest.
- Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome.
- An applicant to or student at a school that was attended by his or her parent.
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