Posted on 02/06/2006 6:08:53 AM PST by ken5050
Good Monday morning, once again, fellow political jinkies. The NFL season may be over, but the political season inside the Beltway is 24/7/365. So join us, if you can, as those wacky Dems on the Senate Judiciary committee reprise their pitiful efforts to once again smear President Bush and score political points..
I haven't heard of him before now
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1777/halpcnss.htm
Morton Halperin and his ultra-radical Center for National Security Studies
Gonzales
Another fine American sent me these quotes!!
However, because of the President's constitutional duty to act for the United States in the field of foreign relations, and his inherent power to protect national security in the context of foreign affairs, we reaffirm what we held in United States v. Clay, supra, that the President may constitutionally authorize warrantless wiretaps for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence."--United States v. Brown, 484 F.2d 418, 426 (1973)
"We agree with the district court that the Executive Branch need not always obtain a warrant for foreign intelligence surveillance."--U.S. v. Truong Dinh Hung, 629 F.2d 908, 913 (1980)
"Prior to the enactment of FISA, virtually every court that had addressed the issue had concluded that the President had the inherent power to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance to collect foreign intelligence information, and that such surveillances constituted an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment."--United States v. Duggan, 743 F.2d 59 (1984)
"The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent [constitutional] authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information."--In re Sealed Case, 310, F3d. 717, 742 (2002)
And since you mentioned the Prize cases, let me add this "bonus" quote!
"If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority." --The Amy Warwick (The "Prize Cases"), 67, U.S. 635, 668 (1862)
so where are we?
just got here....was on the 24 thread...
That information just sent a shiver down my spine. I don't think I've read anything else that provides better insight into what is going on here.
Beware the Mort Bump.
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Open Society Institute (Soros) also helped to train journalists in Iraq after the fall of Sadaam and many of them have gone on to write anti-american crap for pro insurgent papers in Iraq. These people are a real cancer on this country.
I am beyond angry after watching these hearings all day. The democratic party is not only deluded, they are dangerous for this country.
OMG ... The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up
These people are out to destroy this country
Halperin used to work at WBAP Radio, here in Dallas...before he moved to New York...
Remember, he is the one that wrote that infamous e-mail, right before the debates..telling their people to "talk up" Kerry..I believe.
Thanks; I didn't hear about that one.
Why couldn't they have expressed their concerns during the briefings? Why couldn't they have asked for their own legal analysis? It would seem to me that they had multiple options that didn't potentially compromise an effective program or the security of the country.
Thank you, that is about the only one of Horowitz's books I haven't read...I'm going to order it tomorrow if I don't find it at the local bookstore.
Amazing that I hadn't heard of him....but, knowing what his son did...it makes sense now...why he did it.
THIS is really something for us to keep track of and research more, don't you think?
I want to thank both of you for posting the information about Morton Halperin.
How the heck do we fight these people and expose them
You have that right and sadly it is going relatively undetected.
My blood is curdling at these beasts and their evil. This country is at war from without and within ..I detest these vermin.
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