~>  -> Yes, laws, laws that can be changed.  It's a defense of the Unitary
~>  -> President Powers that the neocons were pushing.

~>  EC> The Unitary Executive concept says that the entire executive branch is
~>  EC> responsible for enforcing the law, and that the President is the head
~>  EC> of the entire executive branch.  I doubt that you can come up with any
~>  EC> coherent argument against it, and I am certain that you cannot explain
~>  EC> how you jumped to it from a thread on torture.
  
~> No, try again. They hold basically that the president can run the gvt 
~> as if it was a dictatorship.  
 
Scalia said that torture is illegal, and you interpreted him to say that it
was LEGAL.  How much twisting of meaning did you have to do to get that
strange interpretation of the Unitary Executive Branch?
 
~>  -> what he's doing is defending the use of torture
 
~>  EC> Complete nonsense.  His words have been posted to you.  Just read
~>  EC> them. 
 
~> I've heard his words often enough to realize that he has no other purpose 
~> but to justify the torture

There was not a single word to justify torture.  But you are free to
imagine any partisanly biased thing you choose to.
 
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