Message #153854

[Bryan Krachtt]

Hi Hareconen, aren't you a little late with these pointers?  All these things happened under Bush, years ago.  Presidential Decision Directive 51, for instance, giving Bush complete authority in time of an emergency, was signed by him years ago.

Not to say that it would have actually been law since it would have remade the Constitution.

Yet we have no records of it being passed or not. Being that it was signed by Bush, Congress and senate could have put that into effect and not informed the American people.
This was done with the Patriot Act!

Presidential Directive 51 was a Presidential directive, sort of like one of Bush's signing statements.

The Patriot Act actually was passed by Congress, the problem being no one actually read it before it got signed!