Harpers editor: War allowed Bush to trump personal rights

Mar. 5, 2009
MSNBCs Countdown
Harpers editor: War allowed Bush to trump personal rights
By David Edwards
Scott Horton, a contributing editor to Harpers magazine, discusses a column he wrote about the release of the Bush DOJ memos in which he claims the former President George Bush was freed from the constraints of the Bill of Rights during wartime with respect to anything he chose to label as counter-terrorism operations inside the United States.