34 . Ibid.
35 . Sue Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: An Assault on Civil Liberties in the Name of Homeland Security,” The Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/HL748.cfm (Jun. 10, 2002).
36 . “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001, http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf.
37 . Blevins, “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act.”
38 . “Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) Turns Governors into Dictators,” Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc., http://www.aapsonline.org/ testimony/emerpower.htm (Dec. 3, 2001).
39 . “The Model State Emergency Powers Act,” as of December 21, 2001, http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA2.pdf.
40 . Ibid.
41 . Ibid.
42 . Amitai Etzioni, How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?, (New York: Routledge, 2005), 89.
43 . “Questions and Answers: Travel and Quarantine,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/qa/travel.htm (May 3, 2005).
44 . Etzioni, How Patriotic Is the Patriot Act?, 89–90.
45 . Ibid., 90.
46 . Ron Paul, “International Bailout Brings Us Closer to Economic Collapse,” Inforwars, http://www.infowars.com/international-bailout-brings-us-closer-to-economic-collapse ( Jun. 24, 2009).
47 . L. Gordon Crovitz, RICO Racket (Washington D.C.: National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 1989), 18.
48 . Ibid., 20.
49 . Samuel A. Alito in Crovitz, RICO Racket, 1–2.
50 . Ibid., 3.
51 . William Anderson and Candice E. Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem,” Reason magazine, http://www.reason.com/news/show/29099.html (April 2004).
52 . William Anderson, “Mick Vick and the Feds,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson194.html (Aug. 20, 2007).
53 . Anderson and Jackson, “Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem.”
54 . William Anderson, “Aschroft and Justice: Mutual Exclusives,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson55.html (Aug. 30, 2002).
55 . “High court won’t hear charges of RICO-misuse in suits,” LegalNewsLine.com, http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/202624-high-court-wont-hear-charges-of-rico-misuse-in-suits (Oct. 16, 2007).
Lie #14
1 . President Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to sending American troops to fight in World War II.
2 . Ibid.
3 . Anne Leland and Mari-Jana Oboroceanu, “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics,” Congressional Research Service, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf (Sept. 15, 2009).
4 . This section of the chapter is largely based on the book entitled Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, Robert B. Stinnett (New York: Touchstone, 2000).
5 . “The McCollum Memo” (Oct. 7, 1940), which can be found at http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html.
6 . Donald E. Schmidt, The Folly of War: American Foreign Policy, 1898–2005 (Algora Publishing: 2005), 144.
7 . “American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics.”
8 . President Roosevelt attended Columbia Law School, but passed the New York State Bar Exam before completing his studies, and never graduated.
9 . According to Article I, Section 8, of the United States Constitution, “The Congress has the Power To . . . declare War” (emphasis added). The Constitution nowhere grants such authority to the President, or any other government official or entity.
10 . This section of the chapter is largely based on Scott McClellan’s What Happened? (New York: Public Affairs, 2008). McClellan was one of President George W. Bush’s press secretaries. His book recounts his experiences at the Bush White House and Washington’s culture of deception.
Lie #15
1 . President George W. Bush.
2 . Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466, 473 (2004) (citations omitted).
3 . Doernberg, et al., Federal Courts, Federalism and Separation of Powers, 4th ed. (St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008), 1064.
4 . Hamdi, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).
5 . Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (New York: Random House, 2008), 199.
6 . Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 243 F. Supp. 2d 527 (E.D. Va. 2002).
7 . Ibid., 243 F. Supp. 2d at 536.
8 . Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 532.
9 . Ibid., 542 U.S. at 536.
10 . Toobin, The Nine, 275.
11 . Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004).
12 . Chemerinsky, Federal Jurisdiction, 906–7.
13 . Toobin, The Nine, 270.
14 . Ibid.
15 . Rasul, 542 U.S. 466 (2004).
16 . Shafiq Rasul was actually released before the decision was handed down, but remained as lead plaintiff.
17 . Toobin, The Nine, 269.
18 . Ibid.
19 . Hamdan, 548 U.S. 557 (2006).
20 . Boumediene, 128 U.S. 2229 (2008).
21 . In January 2009, Susan J. Crawford, a top Bush administration official, stated that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. According to Crawford, Qahtani was subjected to nudity, sleep deprivation, sustained isolation, and prolonged exposure to cold. Qahtani currently has an action pending in federal court, challenging his confinement. (Source: Del Quentin Wilber and Julie Tate, “Detainee’s Lawyers to Get Interrogation Tapes,” Washington Post [Oct. 6, 2009]).
22 . Vice President Cheney, in an interview with Nightline, http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IraqCoverage/story?id=1419206 (Dec. 18, 2005).
23 . Elizabeth Holtzman, “The Impeachment of George W. Bush,” The Nation, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman ( Jan. 11, 2006).
24 . Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
25 . Ibid.
26 . Ibid.
27 . Philippe Sands, Torture Team, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009), 8.
28 . Ibid., 7–8.
29 . Ibid., 7.
30 . Ibid., 8.
31 . Ibid., 9.
32 . Ibid., 13.
33 . Ibid.
34 . Ibid.
35 . John Barry, Michael Hirsh, and Michael Isikoff, “The Roots of Torture,” Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/id/105387 (May 24, 2004).
36 . Ibid.
37 . Ibid.
38 . Ibid.
39 . Ibid.
40 . Ibid.
41 . Ibid.
42 . Ibid.
43 . Ibid.
44 . Ibid.
45 . Ibid.
46 . David Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers,” New York Review (Oct. 8, 2009) (written Sept. 10, 2009).
47 . Ibid.
48 . Ibid.
49 . Ibid.
50 . Ibid.
51 . Ibid.
52 . Ibid.
53 . Ibid.
54 . Ibid.
55 . Ibid.
56 . Ibid.
57 . Sands, Torture Team, 3.
58 . Ibid.
59 . Ibid., 3–4.
60 . Ibid., 5.
61 . Ibid.
62 . Bryan Walsh, “Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma,” Time.com, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1892721,00.html (Apr. 20, 2009).
63 . Ibid.
64 . Ibid.
65 . Ibid.
66 . Ibid.
67 . Ibid.
68 . It is interesting to note that Cheney and his general counsel, David Addington, theorized that torture could not actually be considered torture unless the subject suffered a near-death experience. A CIA doctor, however, noted that torture always constitutes a near-death experience. Therefore, Cheney and the Bush administration had actually been violating their own rationale.
69 . Cole, “The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers.”
70 . Ibid.
71 . Ibid.
72 . Ibid.
73 . Ibid.
74 . Ibid.
75 . Ibid.
76 . Ibid.
77 . Ibid.
78 . Ibid.
79 . Ibid.
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