Posted on 12/20/2005 7:55:51 AM PST by SueRae
Are you talking about the rape and groping claims?
Just because JFK did it, Clinton did and Bush does it (those are three articles I've read), doesn't mean it's Constitutional.
Strange that Bush did not say something about this, if it were real...
Shows that this is not a Democrat/Republican issue but one where DOJ has been trying to grab power for years.
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I think they're talking about Clinton using the IRS to audit political enemies...?
FISA wire tap authority to the POTUS was enhanced with the passage of HR 2975 (337-79)and S 1510 (96-1).
"Clinton did it" is a pretty sorry rationale for government spying on American citizens. Clinton did a lot of things that shouldn't have been done.
Where was the "civil liberties" crowd when the Clinton Admin was using US Army tanks to massacre the Branch Davidians, women and children included?
The Constitution has not been in effect since before FDR. Let's not kid ourselves.
They'll back down now. Watch Bill Clinton along with Jimmy Carter announce that what Bush did was wrong... or has it happened already?
I am looking forward to Gorelick writing a letter in support of President Bush's authority. As Jamie says: "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes..."
Has it been confirmed this was done on American citizens? On Fox this morning they were saying it had not yet been confirmed these were American citizens, just that they were phone calls coming in to and going out of the US.
This freak of nature needs to be investigated and brought before a Senate committee.
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True. And this is why the "political class" put her on the Commission, to preclude her appearance under oath. They did then, and still do, have alot they want to hide from the public.
His IRS activities are needed, release the entire Barrett report.
[Federal Register page and date: 60 FR 8169; February 13, 1995]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release February 9, 1995
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12949
- - - - - - -
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PHYSICAL SEARCHES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("Act") (50 U.S.C. 1801,
et seq.), as amended by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for
the authorization of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes
as set forth in the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the
Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a
court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of
up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications
required by that section.
Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney
General is authorized to approve applications to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court under section 303 of the Act to obtain
orders for physical searches for the purpose of collecting foreign
intelligence information.
Sec. 3. Pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following
officials, each of whom is employed in the area of national security or
defense, is designated to make the certifications required by section
303(a)(7) of the Act in support of applications to conduct physical
searches:
(a) Secretary of State;
(b) Secretary of Defense;
(c) Director of Central Intelligence;
(d) Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation;
(e) Deputy Secretary of State;
(f) Deputy Secretary of Defense; and
(g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that
capacity, may exercise the authority to make the above certifications,
unless that official has been appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 9, 1995.
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