[ricks_place]

violation of the warrant requirement of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

Professor, The President of the United States is the Commander in Chief. The United States Constitution gives the Judiciary no power in the area of defense. Read the Constitution.

[Semper Paratus]

The United States Constitution gives the Judiciary no power in the area of defense.

The Founding Fathers were not idiots!

[Publius6961]

The eavesdropping continued for four years, long after fears of imminent September 11 repetitions had lapsed, before ...

Bruce, you moron.

Anyone who would make a statement like that under the circumstances has nothing further to say I'd be interested in...

[satchmodog9]

The eavesdropping continued for four years, long after fears of imminent September 11 repetitions had lapsed

Speachless...

[YouPosting2Me]

sPING

[cvq3842]

I fear that we can write the history of the near future already: while our leaders obsessed over "torture" and "spying on Americans" they left the borders wide open and ignored the threats faced by our country . . . until the next attack.

I hope more than anything that we are not attacked again. If we are, people are on record as to how they felt about our efforts to combat terrorism.

[trebb]

Amazing how they try to use the word "Secret" as a slam. If it weren't Secret, then it would be useless. Thanks to some traitors in government and the MSM, it has lost a lot of it's potential effectiveness.

[MinuteGal]

This venomous article is again a piece of the foundation being laid for impeachment.

Where are the constitutional lawyers/writers arguing FOR the President's case in the MSM?

Again, no venomous pieces are being answered in this "spying" battle of words, except from some pundits in weak defense. Bring out the respected Republican legal heavy-hitters, for cryin' out loud......and get them in the print media and on TV.

Looks like the White House PR wussies have again gone back into Rip Van Winkle mode (have they ever come out of it?)

Leni

[Just A Nobody]

I thought this was Scrappleface! Pathetic

[alisasny]

.....long after fears of imminent September 11 repetitions had lapsed

What a pathetic statement. Frankly we will never loose that fear.

[Buckhead]

If Fein is such a fricking genius, why has every court that has considered the question explicitly acknowledged that the President has the exact power that Fein claims he does not?

His reading of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force is that the President can kill al Qaeda, but he can't listen to their phone calls.

Korematsu is still good law, Fein-o.

And, seizing a steel mill is a far cry from listeing to the international phone calls of the enemy, so the analogy to Youngstown is strained, to say the least.

If this is the best argument against the NSA wiretaps, we win in a rout.

[sgtbono2002]

Its hard to believe this was printed in the Washington Times. This is a New York Times type attack.

The eavesdropping should continue until we have won this war against the fanatics.

[Wasanother]

If this is the premise of constitutionality then every time my phone number shows up on some caller ID my rights have been violated. When someone hears me on my cell phone in public then my rights have been violated. When another computer puts a cookie on my computer my rights have been violated. When I e-mail someone and someone else reads it, regardless of circumstances, my rights have been violated. If I e-mailed Zarqawi in Iraq and the feds saw it my rights have been violated. sarc

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Ridiculousness of this article is duly noted, as per the aforementioned comments. Yet there is one sentence in the editorial with which I agree: " Indeed, no unconstitutional usurpation is saved by longevity. "

This is true and accurate and gives me hope for the overthrow of Roe v. Wade and Kelo. Perhaps once we have five rational, orginalist jurists on the the Supreme Court.

[gakrak]

Well we won't let a little matter of our constitution get in the way of our spin will we. It just goes to show you that, that evil Bush is trying to protect the USA from terrorists and the Libs and MSM want to kill him for it. I wish they would just shut up. Amen.

[harpu]

Why not send Mr. Fein a note and let him know your thoughts about his writings - directly.

Personally, it felt good sharing my views with this ignorant bastard.

[advance_copy]

December 28, 2005--Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States.

[AmericanChef]

I had to check and make sure I wasn't reading the Washington Post.

-"President Bush secretly ordered..."-

(Because it was a secret!! OOPS - NOT ANY MORE!!)

-"Mr. Bush has adamantly refused to acknowledge any constitutional limitations on his power..."-

Good grief!! If you're confident you haven't broken any laws, how can this be a refusal?

This is all so sickening. Tell ya what - let's just pull out of Iraq, Afghanistan, shut down the NSA, FBI, CIA, forget all about 9/11 (aparently the writer has) and just let the whole world go to hell in a handbasket.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

Mr. Bush has continued the NSA spying without congressional authorization or ratification of the earlier interceptions.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547700/posts

Bush was denied wiretaps, bypassed them (FISA Court denied them in unprecedented numbers)