Making Torture Legal.

In the last hundred years or so the powers of the US
president have been growing compared to that of the
US congress. In the late 19th century the congress
wielded a much larger part of the power and the president
was a far weaker figure than he later came to be. In this
light, the claims made by the US government lawyers
on the powers of the US president can be seen not as
an aberration, but a part of a longer historical
development, where the power of the president increases
when compared to congress. This is the pinnacle of it
- for now. It´s hard to see that the US congress would
be ready or capable to claim back it´s larger role and
drive the president back to his traditional part of the
field of the government. One reason to this is of course
that the US politics have become character driven, not
as much about politics as about persons.