Wiretapping Subpoenas Lead to Constitutional Shutdown窃听传票导致宪政关机

By由 Ryan Singel瑞安singel

Dems want to know more about the NSA’s secret warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.机电工程署署长想知道更多关于美国国家安全局的秘密窃听窃听的美国人。 They drop a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush.他们掉了传票，对司法部长冈萨雷斯和布什总统。 Both claim the documents are protected by executive privilege or too classified.都声称这些文件受到保护行政特权或太机密。 This is a very likely future scenario and presumably its one the Administration is attempting to head off with its call yesterday for Congress to explicitly legalize the program.这是一个极有可能今后的情况，并推测它的一个政府当局正试图阻止其昨天呼吁国会明确合法化程序。

But what happens next?但是，接下来将要发生？ That’s what Jeffrey Rosen (author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America )这就是杰弗里罗森（作者想要的凝视：销毁隐私权在美国 ） asks 问 over the New Republic today (reg. req.) The surprising and not so-surprising conclusion: well, someone could end up in the little known jail inside Congress and the government mired in a Constitutional battle.在新的共和国今天（注册req.pem这样就好了） ，令人称奇，并没有那么令人吃惊的结论：那么，有人可能最终在鲜为人知的监狱内，国会和政府陷入宪政仗。

Restraint, however, may not be enough to prevent a constitutional confrontation that could make Monicagate look tame. 克制，但可能仍不足以阻止宪法对抗，可以使monicagate看看驯服。 That’s because any conflict could escalate quickly when the White House, invoking its radical theory of unilateral executive authority, refuses to cooperate with Democratic investigations. 这是因为任何冲突可能升级时，会很快地入主白宫，援引其激进理论的单方行政权力，拒绝合作，同各民主党派进行调查。 Congress may then hold the White House officials in contempt, setting up legal battles that could make their way to the Supreme Court while paralyzing the government in the process. 国会可能会举行，然后在白宫官员蔑视，设立法律仗，可能会让自己的方式向最高法院提出上诉，而瘫痪了，政府在这一过程中。 […] [ … … ]

The Judiciary Committee, followed by the full House, votes to hold Gonzales in contempt of Congress–a federal crime with a punishment of up to a year in prison. 司法委员会主席，其次是满座，一票持有冈萨雷斯藐视国会一项联邦罪行与惩罚的长达一年的监禁。 After Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, certifies the contempt citation, she then forwards it along to the US attorney for the District of Columbia, demanding that he haul Gonzales before a grand jury. 之后，南希佩洛西，众议院议长，证明蔑视引文，然后，她前锋，它一直向美国联邦检察官对哥伦比亚区，并要求他长途冈萨雷斯的大陪审团前。 […] [ … … ]

Regardless of how the Supreme Court ruled in Conyers v. Gonzales (ed. note: the hypothetical case where Rep. John Conyers issued the subpoena), there would be subsidiary legal battles raging for months as the contempt case made its way up to the Supreme Court. 不论如何最高法院裁定，在31日诉冈萨雷斯 （编注：假设的情况下，众议员约翰康亚斯发出传票） ，将有附属的法律纠缠肆虐了几个月，因为藐视法庭案作出了自己的方式，直至最高法院法院。 Democrats and Republicans would fight about whether to force Gonzales to testify by granting him the necessary immunity–immunity grants require a two-thirds vote by the relevant committee–and the scope of his immunity might provoke lawsuits of its own. 民主党人和共和党人将扑灭是否迫使冈萨雷斯作证，发放了必要的免疫豁免权助学金需获得三分之二的投票，由有关委员会和范围，他的免疫力可能会挑起诉讼，其自己的活力。 All these fires would be raging from a single investigation into the NSA scandal. 所有这些火灾中，将熊熊，从一个单一的调查，美国国家安全局的丑闻。 At the same time, a series of related battles and lawsuits might be erupting from parallel investigations into Iraq war intelligence, Halliburton cronyism, and the misuse of presidential signing statements. 在同一时间内，一系列相关的战役和诉讼可能爆发的，由平行调查伊拉克战争情报，哈利伯顿任人唯亲，以及滥用总统签署声明。

The more I think about it the more I think Rosen might be right.我越去想它，我就更加觉得罗森可能是正确的。 The question then becomes how far will the new Democratic leadership go to hold back investigations, because despite the election results, I don’t believe the administration is going to change its stance on secrecy and executive power.那么，问题变得究竟能够走多远，新的民主领导人去隐瞒调查后，因为尽管选举结果，我不相信政府不会改变其立场，对保密制度和行政权力。

All I know is that I need to get my typing fingers in shape real soon to keep up. 我所知道的是，我需要让我打字的手指形实时尽快跟上。

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