Not Any Damn Better Than The God Damned Shrub On Many Important Issues!

US to publish torture details, magazine reports -- Canada.com
(President Barack Obama is moving to publish three Bush-era memos that detail interrogation methods used on top Al-Qaeda suspects, U.S. magazine Newsweek reports...)

Obama: No charges against CIA for interrogations -- Reuters

No CIA charges over waterboarding -- aljazeera.net -- United Press International -- The Associated Press

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Comment by Bruce Fein, President, The Lichfield Group:

Obama echoes Bush-Cheney – 2 hours ago

President Obama has embraced the national security psychology of the Bush-Cheney duumvirate not only in matters of secrecy, but the entire range of civil liberties abuses justified by a purported global and endless war against international terrorism. Indeed, Obama has invoked state secrets in litigation to conceal torture, extraordinary rendition, illegal surveillance, or arbitrary detentions that have given rise to private damages litigation against former government officials. He has claimed that Bagram prison in Afghanistan is a sanctuary for United States lawlessness. He has asserted that the entire world is a battlefield against terrorism; thus, drones can be fired without a judicial warrant to kill persons suspected of Al Qaeda membership on the President's say-so alone. Like President Bush, he has issued a presidential signing statement claiming plenary power over the use of the American military. He has claimed authority to detain United States citizens as "enemy combatants" indefinitely without accusation or trial. In sum, on national security and the war on terrorism, Obama has shown that the more things change, the more they stay the same, despite his adept semantical juggleries.

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Please Read The July 25, 2008 Statement of Bruce Fein Before The House Judiciary Committee Regarding The Proposed Impeachment of George W. Bush

Click here for the PDF file of that statement.

Bruce Fein is a lawyer in the United States who specializes in constitutional and international law. He received his degree in law from Harvard Law School in 1972.

Mr. Fein is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and other major national publications. He has been featured on the cover of the American Bar Association Journal, the legal profession's most prestigious publication.

He has authored several volumes on the United States Supreme Court, the United States Constitution, and international law. He has assisted three dozen countries in constitutional revision, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Iraq, Cyprus, and Mozambique, and consulted foreign nations on matters ranging from telecommunications and cable regulation to sugar quotas, oil and gas pipelines, immigration, election laws, and human rights.

Mr. Fein has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He has also been executive editor of World Intelligence Review, a periodical devoted to national security and intelligence issues. He regularly lectures to foreign guests and dignitaries visiting the United States on behalf of the State Department.

At present, he writes regular columns for The Washington Times and Slate devoted to legal and international affairs. He is a guest columnist for numerous other newspapers, and writes articles for professional and lay journals. He is often invited to testify regularly before Congress and administrative agencies by both Democrats and Republicans. He appears regularly on national and international television, cable, and radio programs as an expert in foreign affairs, international and constitutional law, telecommunications, terrorism, national security, and related subjects. He is a regular guest at the BBC, C-SPAN, CNN, Reuters, MSNBC, and NPR.

Bruce was raised in San Francisco and was born in 1943.

The Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program that intercepted some communications without a warrant from the FISA court incensed Mr. Fein enough to propose censure or even impeachment of the President George W. Bush. He ridiculed Harriett Miers's brief flirtation with a Supreme Court nomination, and was sharply criticical of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Notable published writings by Bruce Fein include articles advocating the impeachment of former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney.

On September 2, 2008, Fein addressed Ron Paul's "Rally For The Republic" in Minneapolis offering a critique of the Bush administration's interventionist policy and advocating a more non-interventionist foreign policy. Fein also harshly criticized the anti-terror policies of the Bush White House, including wiretapping and detention of terror suspects.

He is a principal in a government affairs and public relations firm, The Lichfield Group, in Washington, D.C..

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A List Of Thirty Highly Regarded, Well-Loved Books And Plays Which Are Widely Known To Be Fiercely Disliked By Many Readers:

David Copperfield

A Christmas Carol

Great Expectations

Hard Times

Oliver Twist

The Scarlet Letter

My Antonia

The Last of the Mohicans

Moby Dick

Billy Budd

Tropic of Cancer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Catcher In The Rye

Little Women

Ulysses

The Red Badge of Courage

The Call of the Wild

The Age of Innocence

Ethan Frome

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead

Giants in the Earth

Farewell to Arms

The Grapes of Wrath

Animal Farm

The Stranger

Shakespeare's "histories"

Our Town

Death of a Salesman

The Glass Menagerie