'Bush-era records released under the Freedom of Information Act raise concerns about the powers presidents might claim during crises, from suspending habeas corpus to implementing an internet kill switch.'
In 2004, high-ranking staffers in the George W. Bush administration spearheaded a holistic review of the president's emergency powers. Their goal was to refresh a set of secret plans known as"presidential emergency action documents," or PEADs, the continuity-of-government playbook that emerged under President Dwight Eisenhower as a response to the threat of nuclear war.
Those documents had been revised previously, but they took on new significance in the wake of 9/11. Their review was, as one Bush officialIn response to Freedom of Information Act , the George W. Bush Presidential Library turned over to the Brennan Center more than 500 pages generated during this review and subsequent reviews in 2006 and 2008.
Beyond that period, however, our knowledge of PEADs' content fades. We have been left to wonder whether existing documents still green-light the violation of Americans' constitutional rights and civil liberties, or if modern sensibilities and understandings of the law have moderated their approach.
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