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The Perils of Emergency Power

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The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans’ and other people’s financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may have conducted “hundreds of thousands” of warrantless searches of Americans’ and others’ personal financial data. The Bush administration used broad administrative subpoenas to commandeer the personal data — simply a bureaucratic command to “give us the information.” The media paid little attention to the law the president invoked to justify the incursion; instead, almost all the coverage and analysis was consumed by harangues over whether the New York Times was guilty of treason for informing Americans of what the federal government was doing. But the International Emergency Economic ...

The Perils of Emergency Power

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The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans and other peoples financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may have conducted hundreds of thousands of warrantless searches of Americans and others personal financial data. The Bush administration used broad administrative subpoenas to commandeer the personal data simply a bureaucratic command to give us the information. The media paid little attention to the law the president invoked to justify the incursion; instead, almost all the coverage and analysis was consumed by harangues over whether the New York Times was guilty of treason for informing Americans of what the federal government was doing. But the International Emergency Economic ...

Lies and Leviathan

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Big government requires big lies and not just on wars but across the board. The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell. Interventions beget debacles that require cover-ups and denials. The more the government screws up, the more evidence the government is obliged to bury or deny. The government becomes addicted to the growth of its own revenue and power and this growth cannot be maintained without denying or hiding the adverse effects of government power. Likewise, rulers become addicted to prestige and adulation and these often cannot survive honest accounts of their actions. Lies have propelled Leviathans growth. Social Security is the single largest government aid program and the big lie of domestic politics. From the start, the Roosevelt ...