The shear arrogance of this administration is clearly demonstrated in the latest scandal of "torture" and memos. The Miami Herold's editorial is clear as any article I've read on the danger's to our "rule of law" as any:

President's power vs. laws against torture
OUR OPINION: U.S. MUST ABIDE BY ITS COMMITMENTS AGAINST ABUSES
Miami Herald - June 10th

"U.S. presidents customarily have pushed the envelope of their legal authority to the maximum during wartime. President Bush has been no exception, suspending the right of habeas corpus for U.S. citizens in two known cases and claiming the right to operate a prison at Guantánamo Bay that exists in an extra-legal, no-man's land. Even with all that, the claim by government lawyers that Mr. Bush can authorize torture of prisoners in disregard of U.S. law, international law, the Geneva Conventions, treaty commitments, human decency and plain common sense should shock the conscience of every American.

It's hard to say what's worse -- the notion that the power to set aside laws is ''inherent in the president,'' as one report has it, or the claim that a president's power as commander-in-chief includes the right to use torture. Both of these wrongheaded ideas offend legal and constitutional standards -- the separation of powers, to cite only one -- and must be unequivocally rejected."