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Originally Posted by King Adam
The problem is the way the constitution is being defined. The president and his administration have found ways to interperate the constitition in a way that gives them a right to do what they want. Talk to other "scholars" and they say the constitution means something else. Unfortunetly scholars don't have the power or persuasian that the US government has.
And I may not be a scholar, but it doesn't take one to see that he has commited high crimes. There are a lot of things people know about him and his administration but they can't make progress in proving it. What about all those highly educated men and women that continue to talk how the Bush admin constently keeps them from saying certain truths to the media. The administration is a bunch of bully's and they don't want the American public knowing the truth about many things. They have so much power that they can control what people say and don't say.
If you don't think he has commited any crimes than I think you are just silly.
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I am not a constitutional scholar either, but I have paid attention to the hearings that have been held about the "phone taps" and in one of the hearings I paid particular attention to what a half dozen former FISA Court Judges had to say. When congress passed FISA they added the language "the exclusive way" and each of the former FISA judges agreed that the lanquage would limit the power of the President provided to him by the constitution and thus is unconstitutional and not binding upon the President unless or until the Supreme Court ruled otherwise.
In other words all of the former FISA Court Judges agreed that the President not only has the constitutional right to ignore the FISA Court when "phone tapping" but in addition has an obligatory right to "phone tap" and would be derelict in his duties of the Presidency if he did not "phone tap".
In other panels before the committee the majority consensus among constitutional scholars was that the President had the constitutional authority to "phone tap" without going through the FISA courts and that the "exclusive" lanquage in the passing of FISA was not constitutional in that it limits the power of the President.
As for other crimes maybe you could be specific as to what the crimes are?