[peyton randolph]

As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. If the leftists want to commit suicide by jihad, I urge them to buy one-way tickets to Iran.

[Pragmatic_View]

When people bring up the Contstitution, that's a red herring.

The entire wiretapping was unrestricted until 26 years ago, when Congress made a law and created FISA, as a knee jerk reaction to the wiretapping of the Nixon adminstration. Is anyone going to claim that prior to that, for some 200 years the Constitution was ignored?

This is an unintended consequence of that law, and if Congress had any backbone and some other appropriate body parts, they would change the law to make it easy to catch terrorists, instead of handcuffing our President and intelligence agencies, making it virtually impossible for them, to find out about imminent attacks, once the terrorists are already in place, in the US. How idiotic is that?!

[ndt]

"As they say, the Constitution is not a suicide pact."

I know you did not coin the phrase, but never the less it is a very disturbing cliche. It suggests that when the constitution gets in the way of agenda, yes, even if that agenda is national security, it is somehow OK to ignore it. This is not correct

How does adhering to the constitution and rule of law equate to being a suicide pact? There are procedure in place to change it if needed. No one gets to summarily dismiss it.

[victim soul]

Ah, chock up another consequence of the Liberal Death Wish.