Posted on 12/27/2005 10:16:13 AM PST by Ben Mugged
"Intelligence abuse," "abuse of civil liberties," and "should be done within the law" are some of the terms utilized in a recent editorial criticizing President George W. Bush for authorizing the National Security Agency to spy on suspected terrorists~snip~. Certainly, now that The Reporter is owned by out-of-towners, it has the requisite tools and access to the facts, and should not be dependent on the New York Times for its information or for its editorial policy.
The media continues to assail the president for supposedly instituting "a major shift in American-intelligence gathering practices," according to the Times, when the fact of the matter is that as far back as President Jimmy Carter, such intelligence gathering was legal. President Carter signed Executive Order 12139 on May 23, 1979, authorizing warrantless surveillance.
On Dec. 4, 1981, President Reagan signed Executive Order 12333 authorizing the collection of information on U.S. citizens. ~snip~
On July 14, 1994, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, under President Clinton, testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, saying: "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." Those who today are concerned that we are losing our civil liberties were not whining back then. No, they were notably silent.
Those who accuse President Bush of violating the law obviously do not know what the law is, nor have they read the law. Title 50 of the U.S. Code, Chapter 36, Subchapter I, Section 1802, states: "(T)he President, through the attorney general, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year," under certain conditions. The terrorists in the United States are communicating with terrorists outside the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at thereporter.com ...
The president needs the ability to apply all tools in the war on terror, both foreign and domestic.
All the facts? How about any of the facts.
Once again I have to say that the NY Times in my opinion, has committed treason as well as those who have leaked the NSA op to them. The public takes the media's word for things on many issues. This is why most of the MSM is trying to cover up the truth: Illegal journalism at it's finest.
"Journalists" these days are so lazy if not downright dishonest. They continue to become more irrelevant.
Any Facts? In my Birthday wishes! All of the MSM are "S.O.S"
I wonder who authorized this?
Well, lets not go Overboard on this! We needn't go so far as spy on all of {Ted Kennedy's, John Kerry's, Hitlery's, Dingy's, calls from the NYTimes offices...} overseas phone calls.
not only that, the "gotcha" and "get it out first" mentality continues to dig into what little remaining credibility they had...
"Public not getting all the facts from the media"
Hey now! Boy that's a novel concept!
Public not getting all the facts from the media
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