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In considering whether US President George W. Bush has assaulted & even changed the US constitutional order while prosecuting the war on terrorism, critical attention is brought to bear on Eric Lichtblau's Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice, argued to be a work of immense hypocrisy. Adapted from the source document.

Draws on historical evidence to contemplate whether the New York Times disclosure of National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping on Americans and others inside the United States constitutes a crime, ie, a violation of the Espionage Act. It is contended that the New York Times has compromised the centerpiece of US defensive efforts in the war on terrorism.

Argues that structural reconfiguring of the CIA will not solve the agency's deepest problems. Accusations against the CIA made by former senior intelligence official Michael Scheuer in his anonymously written book, Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror, are discussed to question how someone with such "unhinged" views could achieve a high rank in the CIA. It is argued that the CIA was gripped by "bureaucratic sclerosis" throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A peculiar culture of internal security and an "old boy network" contributed to the dysfunction. Efforts in the mid-1990s to remake the agency in the name of "diversity;" internal obsessions that continue to plague the agency; and the fear that prevents employees from aggressively performing their jobs are described. It is concluded that current plans to add a new layer of bureaucracy will not begin to deal with the real weaknesses of the present system.