CHIEF COUNSEL To Cmtee That Probed Nixon-Wants BUSH Law-Breaking PROBE

[kpete]

Chief counsel to committee that probed Nixon abuse of power wants similar Bush probe Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday February 7, 2007


The chief counsel to the committee that investigated abuses of power by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s tells RAW STORY he’d like to see a similar inquiry into clandestine intelligence operations under President George W. Bush.

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, who presently works as Senior Counsel at the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Social Justice, served as chief counsel to the Church Committee from 1975-1976. The committee drew its name from Senator Frank Church (D-ID) (in photo), who led the massive probe into abuses of power by US intelligence agencies.

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Schwarz also believes Congress should tackle the concept of presidential power espoused by the Bush White House.

“Another thing that needs to be looked at is the theory that the Bush administration has that the president is entitled to break the law,” he said. “Because if that’s right, then much of what they've done with respect to warrantless wiretapping and torture, he's like a king, and he has the right, so you must take on that third subject to have a good investigation.”


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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Chief_Counsel_to_Committee_that_probed_0207.html

[wryter2000]

1. Good for him!

Does his name really have to be F. A. O. Schwartz?

Seriously, I hope his call for an investigation gets somewhere.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. I thought he had a toy store.

[porphyrian]

2. Yes, good. More. - n/t

[myrna minx]

3. Everything old is new again.

Hoo boy, I remember just a few years ago that I felt like these mad men were unstoppable. My fear was that since most of team bu$h was from the nixon years, that they would have learned from their "getting caught" mistakes and therefore they were unstoppable. I guess I didn't bank on their hubris and arrogance getting them into trouble again. Boy did I give them too much credit.

[bobthedrummer]

5. "I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America,

and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss.

That is the abyss from which there is no return."
Senator Frank Church 1975

Frank Church profile from spartacus.schoolnet
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchurchF.htm