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David Harris Pd2 Mr. Fryberger **//__ Cheney’s Law __//** The movie was about the controversial policies of the president in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. All throughout Dick Cheney’s time working for the president, he has tried to gain power for the executive branch but always found some one that didn’t agree with him, until he met President Bush. Even before the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Cheney was lobbying for greater power for the commander in chief, after though, he moved quickly to gain power. The “crowned jewel”, is an executive order that allows CIA to wiretap US citizen’s phones without a warrant in the name of national security. After this he also helped draft an order that limits the congress’s power against the president during war time. Cheney helped gives the military to hold court session to try the convicted terrorists in military tribunals. The CIA was also given the right to interrogate prisoners; with the only preventative was intentional organ failure. I think that a lot of what Dick Cheney did was morally and ethically wrong, but I also agree, in practicality, with everything that he did. That might sound like a contradiction, but it is not; he did what was necessary at the time and it yielded results that saved lives. Going behind congresses’ back was the right decision. Congress is a useless part of the government and it makes the government slower to respond to immediate threats, also with each congressman/woman vying for reelection they become afraid to take on any controversial issue. Although Cheney’s argument for the terrorists exclusion from the Geneva Convention’s law was ethically wrong it was right, as it gave the army the intelligence it needed to prevent attacks on America and her allies. I think that if Dick Cheney were to have gone through congress many more American lives would have been lost because of lost time. If Cheney went to congress they also was also a very good chance that they would reject his proposal and then even more people would have died. Congress if consulted would almost certainly would have prevented his policies for coming to fruition, because they would have taken the “Moral high ground”. In conclusion I believe that Dick Cheney made the right choice in not addressing congress first with these policies as they would have prevented them from being enacted. media type="custom" key="11172032"