Legal Consultant Says Congress Should Declare War, Not President

Bruce Fein, a legal consultant, testifies on behalf of the Executive Accountability Act, which would place criminal penalties on members of the executive branch who lie to Congress in order to encourage it to go to war. He says that Congress should take responsibility for declarations of war. (0:36)
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Civil Rights Attorney: Obama Stance On Torture Soviet-Esque

Bruce Fein, a prominent civil rights lawyer and former attorney under President Ronald Reagan, criticizes President Obama for ignoring torture war crimes rather than prosecuting those involved. He likens President Obama's administration to the Soviet Union and China (0:25).
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Congress has surrendered

Bruce Fein says Congress has surrendered to the increased power of the president by being unresponsive to decisions made by President Bush. (0:51)

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Fein: “The executive branch has vandalized the Constitution”

Bruce Fein, Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan, says that the executive branch of the U.S. government under the Bush Administration has destroyed the time-honored checks-and-balances and taken the country “perilly close to executive despotism.” He says that the executive branch does not accept that the U.S. was “conceived in liberty” and “dedicated to the proposition that sovereignty in a republican form of government lies with the people.” (2:02)
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