Need proof? Check out Romney’s own carefully crafted words. Let Glenn Greenwald be your tour guide. [1]
These are just some of the powers which Romney — and, among the respondents, Romney alone — claimed the President possesses, either by explicitly claiming them or refusing to repudiate them when asked directly:
* to eavesdrop on Americans with no warrants, even if doing so is in violation of Congressional law (Question 1).
* to attack Iran without Congressional authorization, even in the absence of an imminent threat (Question 2).
* to disregard a congressional statute limiting the deployment of troops (Question 3).
* to issue a signing statement reserving a constitutional right to bypass laws enacted by Congress (Question 4).
* to disregard international human rights treaties that the US Senate has ratified where said treaties, in his view, “impinge upon the President’s constitutional authority” (Question 8 ).
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