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Undertoad · 07-24-2007, 07:31 PM

Oh yes, and also on the Sec'y of the Treasury matter:

If you really think about it, for even longer than a minute, you'll realize that having the Secretary of the Treasury be the sole arbiter of whether a case is prosecuted or not, actually limits the scope of the EO.

Amendment 6, which this EO does not address, tells us the accused enjoys the right to confront the witnesses against him. There aren't going to be 10,000 cases in which the Sec'y is a witness when s/he must at the very minimum produce evidence for each one.

07-24-2007, 07:31 PM	#39
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Oh yes, and also on the Sec'y of the Treasury matter: If you really think about it, for even longer than a minute, you'll realize that having the Secretary of the Treasury be the sole arbiter of whether a case is prosecuted or not, actually limits the scope of the EO. Amendment 6, which this EO does not address, tells us the accused enjoys the right to confront the witnesses against him. There aren't going to be 10,000 cases in which the Sec'y is a witness when s/he must at the very minimum produce evidence for each one.