"We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended."  Scott Horton, George W. Bush's Disposable Constitution, Harpers Magazine."The most important thing for the public to understand is we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."  President Obama.(Read Full Post)