From The Seattle PI
By Helen Thomas

President Bush is learning that there are limits to presidential power. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the president has used his commander-in-chief hat to expand his imperial reach beyond what the U.S. Constitution has prescribed.

He has wiretapped Americans without court permission; he has grabbed Iraqis and Afghans in their own countries and shipped them to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some have been held in limbo for more than four years.

His overreach was spurred by Vice President Dick Cheney. That would be the same vice president who famously argued against Sen. John McCain’s proposed ban on torture and lost.

Cheney has stressed he believes that the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War led to an encroachment on presidential powers.

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