Bush takes one more step toward outright fascism.

Sure some of these things may have occured before, but Bush is the first president to officially authorize them on a wide scale.

There was considerable evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the White House.

Clinton solicited and accepted bribes from communist China, and in return signed executive orders, appointed a Chinese spy to sensitive posts (highest he could without Congressional oversight), transferred missile technology from Defense to Commerce (where he appointed the spy), and took actions that all appear to show he appreciated the campaign donations the government of China funnelled to the DNC.

President Clinton's FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote in a 22-page memorandum to then Attorney General Janet Reno in November 1997 that "It is difficult to imagine a more compelling situation for appointing an independent counsel."[57]In July 1998, the Justice Department's campaign finance task force head, Charles La Bella, sent a report to Janet Reno also recommending she seek an independent counsel to investigate alleged fund-raising abuses by Democratic party officials.[58] The media reported that LaBella believed there was clearly an appearance of a conflict of interest by Reno.[59] In his report to Reno he wrote: " [A] pattern [of events] suggests a level of knowledge within the White House”including the President's and First Lady's offices”concerning the injection of foreign funds into the reelection effort."[60] Additionally, La Bella stated: "If these allegations involved anyone other than the president, vice president, senior White House or DNC and Clinton-Gore '96 officials, an appropriate investigation would have commenced months ago without hesitation."[61]Robert Conrad, Jr., who later became head of the task force, called on Reno in Spring 2000 to appoint an independent counsel to look into the fund-raising practices of Vice President Gore.[62]Janet Reno rejected all of these requests:I try to do one thing: what's right. I am trying to follow the independent counsel statute as it has been framed by Congress. If you had a lower threshold, then any time somebody said 'boo' about a covered person, you'd trigger the independent counsel statute ” Janet Reno, December 4, 1997.[63]Six weeks after this statement, Attorney General Reno agreed to Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's request to look into allegations that President Clinton had committed perjury and obstruction of justice relating to the sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by Paula Jones (a former Arkansas state employee during Clinton's governorship there).[64]Critics such as columnists Charles Krauthammer and Morton Kondracke, as well as a number of FBI agents, suggested that the investigations into the improper fund-raising allegations were impeded as part of a cover-up.[65][66][67]

The first president to issue a signing statement was James Monroe.[3] Until the 1980s, with some exceptions, signing statements were generally triumphal, rhetorical, or political proclamations and went mostly unannounced. Until Ronald Reagan became President, only 75 statements had been issued. Reagan and his successors George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton made 247 signing statements between them. As of 2006, George W. Bush has issued over 130 signing statements containing more than 750 constitutional challenges.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional.