Ask Nancy Pelosi: If the president asks you to do it, that means it is not illegal?

[Cos]

I submitted this question for the Netroots Nation forum with Nancy Pelosi:
http://www.askthespeaker.org/akira/dtd/2325-885

FISA was the Senate's response to Nixon's illegal warrantless spying on Americans. The Church commission understood that it wasn't enough for it to be illegal for the government to do it - it also had to be illegal for phone companies to collude with illegal spying, otherwise the law would never be enforced. They placed a legal duty on telecom companies to refuse to comply with illegal surveillance. Now that phone companies have broken that law, they see that when a White House can pressure them into collusion, that same White House can pressure Congress into excusing their crimes if it ever becomes public.

Congress has ratified and expanded on Nixon's saying. Do you believe that "if the president asks you to do it, that means it is not illegal?" How can you reconcile Congress' action with the concept of rule of law, as opposed to rule by kings?

If you want her to be asked this question at the forum, click through and vote for my question.

[rpannier]

1. Done

[panader0]

2. Done

[azureblue]

3. I would ask her this:

"Who do you represent, what was the oath you swore to when you took office, and what rules do you go by?"
If she does not reply "the American People" and "the law of the land, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution" then I would ask, "then who, and what rules?"

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