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To: Reactionary
So far as I know, no one at NewsMax has been forced to resign over forged documents, stealing other's work, or simply making things up.

The same can be said for World Weekly News.

NewsMax is not a reliable news source -- they're in the business of making editorial comments about other peoples' news.

25 posted on 12/20/2005 12:01:55 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Here is the link to the WSJ article NewsMax is referencing:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007703

The relevant portion:
"The allegation of Presidential law-breaking rests solely on the fact that Mr. Bush authorized wiretaps without first getting the approval of the court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. But no Administration then or since has ever conceded that that Act trumped a President's power to make exceptions to FISA if national security required it. FISA established a process by which certain wiretaps in the context of the Cold War could be approved, not a limit on what wiretaps could ever be allowed.

The courts have been explicit on this point, most recently in In Re: Sealed Case, the 2002 opinion by the special panel of appellate judges established to hear FISA appeals. In its per curiam opinion, the court noted that in a previous FISA case (U.S. v. Truong), a federal "court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue [our emphasis], held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information." And further that "we take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power.""


26 posted on 12/20/2005 12:07:49 PM PST by frankjr
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