Happy Habeus Corpus Day: A Sorry State of Affairs

Jonathan Turley on Keith Olbermann:

"Well, this is going to go down in history as one of our greatest self-inflicted wounds. And I think you can feel the judgment of history. It won‘t be kind to President Bush.

But frankly, I don‘t think that it will be kind to the rest of us. I think that history will ask, Where were you? What did you do when this thing was signed into law? There were people that protested the Japanese concentration camps, there were people that protested these other acts. But we are strangely silent in this national yawn as our rights evaporate."

Howard Fineman later in the segment:

"But I think the silence of the Democratic Party generally is stunning and speaks volumes about that party. You heard from Ted Kennedy, you heard from Russ Feingold, you heard a smattering of voices elsewhere... When they realize that it applies to American citizens also, Keith, that‘s the key to it, the notion that the president or some group that he sets up can declare any American citizen to be a, quote, “unlawful enemy combatant,” that‘s outside the bounds of American history, and I think it will eventually be very controversial."