Not only does he read the news, he reads your mail

So Bush affixed another one of his patented signing statements to a new postal reform bill, granting himself unchecked authority to open your mail. Not sure what the purpose of these signing statements are when a). they don't give him any more legal grounds to do this sort of shit than if he had just started breaking the law, and b). they do nothing but piss off concerned Americans by highlighting the fact that hey, he's breaking the law!

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.

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"Despite the President's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.

Well, whether he intends to do it or already has been doing it and is covering his ass now, the joke is still on him and his Administration. People don't use the USPS for anything but sending anthrax nowadays.

W pushes envelope on U.S. spying [NY Daily News]
via Crooks & Liars