Specter tells Miers to expect questions on war, Bush

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102705dnnatmiers.96636cc.html

The senator who will preside at Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers' confirmation hearings told her Wednesday to expect to be questioned about White House's policies on the war on terror and whether she can be independent of President Bush if confirmed.

Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told Miers to expect questions on the area of executive authority "especially in light of your close relationship with the president and the key positions you have held in the White House."

Most of the questions sent to Miers dealt with legal issues pertaining to the war on terror. Specter asked whether there were "any limitations" as to how long Guantanamo Bay detainees could be held. He also told Miers to expect to be asked the long-running question about Congress' ability to declare war versus the president's ability to sent troops into a military action.

"Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?" Specter said.

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1. I hope he asks her what Bush and she talked about after reading the 8/6/01

PDB about the al-Qaeda cells inside the US and what they discussed after 9/11.

I can't believe Dubya just opened the door to this line of questioning. He really is an idiot.

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2. Harriet will tell the Senators that

her Dream Lover can do no wrong. He's cool, you know. Then she'll put her fingers in her ears and say, Whatever!"