Al Gore: A Consitution in Crisis
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Gore Accuses Bush of Breaking the Law by Authorizing Spying
The
following is the text of a speech delivered by Al Gore in Washington,
D.C. yesterday, January 16, 2006. The former vice president was
introduced by former Republican congressman Bob Barr, an
arch-conservative advocate of privacy rights.
Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times
over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our
fellow citizens – Democrats and Republicans alike – to express our
shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger.
In spite
of our differences over ideology and politics, we are in strong
agreement that the American values we hold most dear have been placed
at serious risk by the unprecedented claims of the Administration to a
truly breathtaking expansion of executive power.
As we
begin this new year, the Executive Branch of our government has been
caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has
brazenly declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without
regard to the established law enacted by Congress to prevent such
abuses.
It is imperative that respect for the rule of law be restored.
So, many
of us have come here to Constitution Hall to sound an alarm and call
upon our fellow citizens to put aside partisan differences and join
with us in demanding that our Constitution be defended and preserved.
Click here to read the entire text of Vice President Gore's speech.
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