Wiretapping Subpoenas Lead to Constitutional Shutdown竊聽傳票導致憲政關機

By由 Ryan Singel瑞安singel

Dems want to know more about the NSA’s secret warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.機電工程署署長想知道更多關於美國國家安全局的秘密竊聽竊聽的美國人。 They drop a subpoena on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President Bush.他們掉了傳票，對司法部長岡薩雷斯和布什總統。 Both claim the documents are protected by executive privilege or too classified.都聲稱這些文件受到保護行政特權或太機密。 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.這是一個極有可能今後的情況，並推測它的一個政府當局正試圖阻止其昨天呼籲國會明確合法化程序。

But what happens next?但是，接下來將要發生？ That’s what Jeffrey Rosen (author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America )這就是杰弗裡羅森（作者想要的凝視：銷毀隱私權在美國 ） asks 問 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.在新的共和國今天（註冊req.pem這樣就好了） ，令人稱奇，並沒有那麼令人吃驚的結論：那麼，有人可能最終在鮮為人知的監獄內，國會和政府陷入憲政仗。

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憲法對抗，可以使monicagate看看馴服。 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. 這是因為任何衝突可能升級時，會很快地入主白宮，援引其激進理論的單方行政權力，拒絕合作，同各民主黨派進行調查。 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. 國會可能會舉行，然後在白宮官員蔑視，設立法律仗，可能會讓自己的方式向最高法院提出上訴，而癱瘓了，政府在這一過程中。 […] [ … … ]

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. 司法委員會主席，其次是滿座，一票持有岡薩雷斯藐視國會一項聯邦罪行與懲罰的長達一年的監禁。 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. 之後，南希佩洛西，眾議院議長，證明蔑視引文，然後，她前鋒，它一直向美國聯邦檢察官對哥倫比亞區，並要求他長途岡薩雷斯的大陪審團前。 […] [ … … ]

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. 不論如何最高法院裁定，在31日訴岡薩雷斯 （編注：假設的情況下，眾議員約翰康亞斯發出傳票） ，將有附屬的法律糾纏肆虐了幾個月，因為藐視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. 民主黨人和共和黨人將撲滅是否迫使岡薩雷斯作證，發放了必要的免疫豁免權助學金需獲得三分之二的投票，由有關委員會和範圍，他的免疫力可能會挑起訴訟，其自己的活力。 All these fires would be raging from a single investigation into the NSA scandal. 所有這些火災中，將熊熊，從一個單一的調查，美國國家安全局的醜聞。 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. 在同一時間內，一系列相關的戰役和訴訟可能爆發的，由平行調查伊拉克戰爭情報，哈利伯頓任人唯親，以及濫用總統簽署聲明。

The more I think about it the more I think Rosen might be right.我越去想它，我就更加覺得羅森可能是正確的。 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.那麼，問題變得究竟能夠走多遠，新的民主領導人去隱瞞調查後，因為儘管選舉結果，我不相信政府不會改變其立場，對保密制度和行政權力。

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，我需要讓我打字的手指形實時盡快跟上。

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