as cheney's latest media blitz continues, i keep thinking back to a conversation i had with MatthewB two weeks ago in which we posed the following thought experiment:
what would dick cheney do if president obama declared cheney to be an unlawful combatant and made him disappear? would cheney's lawyers go to court and argue that the president lacked the power to do that? or would dick stick to his principles and accept the detention as a legitimate exercise of executive power?
i'm not advocating that this actually happen. it would be a horribly bad idea for a whole host of fairly obvious reasons. but i still can't help but wonder.
