Spy Chief James Clapper Wins Rosemary Award: Whopper to Congress Clinches Worst Open Government

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12. Rule of law? I was told right here on DU yesterday, not once, but twice in a short space

of time, that we 'cannot apply the rule of law to elected officials, presidents eg, in position of power as it would look 'bad' for an incoming president to start investigations of a previous, from another party, administration.

Make that three times actually. The propaganda runs deep and has been absorbed. I was told that we 'had two bad options, one not to apply the rule of law, the other TO apply it'.

So no rule of law for top officials no matter how egregious the crimes. So, then, my question is, what does make us? Certainly NOT what we claim to be, a democracy. It sounds more like we have created a monarchical system where the Royal Leaders really ARE above the law, and of course their loyal 'servant's'. So what the American Revolution about after all? The Constitution, Bush was apparently only expressing the general opinion of that 'quaint old document' among our 'superiors'. He just said it out loud.

Which reminds me, I can't count the number of times I've been told that the US Constitution doesn't really matter and is NOT the law of the land, again right here on DU.