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from Boston Globe questionnaire on Executive Power (number of quotes indicated): |
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Civil Rights Mitt Romney: Right to be kept alive means secret surveillance is OK. Mitt Romney: Enemy combatants, if citizens, entitled to habeas corpus. |
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Foreign Policy Barack Obama: President must abide by international human rights treaties. John Edwards: President empowered to unilaterally withdraw from treaties. John McCain: No circumstances where president can disregard treaties. Ron Paul: US must obey human rights treaties abroad. |
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Government Reform Barack Obama: Bad idea to over-classify information. Barack Obama: Bush�s signing statements are a clear abuse of prerogative. John Edwards: No use of signing statements as back-door vetoes. John Edwards: Bush damages constitution by increasing power of presidency. John McCain: No signing statements: either sign or veto bills. Mitt Romney: Signing statements are an important presidential practice. Rudy Giuliani: President must be free to defend nation with surveillance. |
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Homeland Security Barack Obama: No presidential power for secret surveillance. Barack Obama: No holding US citizens as unlawful enemy combatants. Barack Obama: Congress decides what constitutes torture, not president. Barack Obama: No torture; defiance of FISA; no military commissions. Bill Richardson: Habeas corpus may not be suspended in war on terror. John Edwards: End Bush�s illegal spying on American citizens. John Edwards: Bush created a national embarrassment at Guantanamo. John Edwards: Torture does not work & undermines our moral authority. John McCain: Surveillance of overseas communications is ok. John McCain: Ok to hold even US citizens as enemy combatants. Ron Paul: No presidential power for secret surveillance. Ron Paul: Habeas corpus always applies, even to Guantanamo. |
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Principles & Values Fred Thompson: Declined to answer Boston Globe questions on Executive Power. Mike Huckabee: Declined to answer Boston Globe questions on Executive Power. |
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War & Peace Barack Obama: Congress decides deployment level & duration, not president. Barack Obama: No action against Iran without Congressional authorization. Bill Richardson: Only Congress has authority to declare war on Iran. John McCain: Strategic bombing of Iran OK only if imminent threat. John McCain: Congress can only declare war; not micromanage wars. Ron Paul: No presidential authority to bomb Iran without Congress. Ron Paul: Congress can defund war, but not micromanage it. |
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