Imperial Apologia: Senate Prepares Pardon for Caesar

Chris Floyd

Well, I was going to write about Arlen Specter's "Imperial Apologia" bill -- which "legalizes" Bush's patently illegal warrantless surveillance program and whitewashes five years of clearly criminal behavior -- because it's coming before Congress this week, and I've written extensively about it before. (Craven Image: The Senate Bows to Imperial Power; July 20; Fever Dream: Fast Forward to the End of Democracy; Jan. 27). But I find that, as usual, Glenn Greenwald has already got it covered and said just about everything I wanted to say about it. (Greenwald is a both curse and blessing for dissident writers; a curse, because he is so often "the firstest with the mostest" on many of the vital matters of our time; and a blessing, of course, because he does so much of the heavy lifting for you.)...

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