Carter's shirt and Castro's.
All Carter needs is a belt.
Posted on 02/11/2006 6:36:57 AM PST by conservativecorner
Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.
"Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision -- we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people," Mr. Carter said Monday in Nevada when his son Jack announced his Senate campaign.
"And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act," he said.
The next day at Mrs. King's high-profile funeral, Mr. Carter evoked a comparison to the Bush policy when referring to the "secret government wiretapping" of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
But in 1977, Mr. Carter and his attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, authorized warrantless electronic surveillance used in the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Vietnam.
The men, Truong Dinh Hung and Ronald Louis Humphrey, challenged their espionage convictions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which unanimously ruled that the warrantless searches did not violate the men's rights.
In its opinion, the court said the executive branch has the "inherent authority" to wiretap enemies such as terror plotters and is excused from obtaining warrants when surveillance is "conducted 'primarily' for foreign intelligence reasons."
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Carter is such a FOOL!!!
He still can't steer a straight line. You'd understand if he were a drunk...but he's not a drunk.
He's just a FOOL!!!
Absolutely delicious. What a fool - a dangerous fool.
Carter fails to mention that he was active in the democrat party in the when it was the party of the KKK.
Carter's shirt and Castro's.
All Carter needs is a belt.
"The Truong case, however, involved surveillance that began in 1977, before the enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which established a secret court for granting foreign intelligence warrants.
Democrats and some Republicans in Congress say FISA guidelines, approved in 1978 when Mr. Carter was president, are the only way the president may conduct surveillance on U.S. soil.
Administration officials say the president has constitutional authority to conduct surveillance without warrants in the name of national security. The only way Congress could legitimately curtail that authority, they argue, is through an amendment to the Constitution. "
Exactly, that "things are different because of FISA" is a load of crap. The Congress can not pass a law that overrules the Constitution. If there is a conflict the Constitution wins every time.
I never realized Castro was so tall
Oh, that's just the viagra doing it's thing.
Maybe it's just that Mr. Peanut is as small and petty as he acts.........
Watching him dig a deeper hole into oblivion can be a good spectator sport.
Carter's disgusting lack of patriotism is reinforced by a media with an agenda. BUSH BASHING at any cost.
US v. Truong set the precedent for this. Since then, three other Circuit Courts have reached the same conclusion (including the 9th). Even the FIS Court of Review has said that FISA cannot encroach upon the "inherent authority" of the President.
For sure!
We can now identify his problem as a medical condition: accusing republicans without memory of their own past sins. Let's call it "carter's amnesia".
Looks like Harry Reid is coming down with a BIG case of it too....$68,000 in contributions from Jack Abramoff to Reid's coffers. NICE WORK HARRY!! So much for the "republican" scandal.
Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho!
"The Congress can not pass a law that overrules the Constitution."
That's a load of hogwash .. the congress has done it time and time again. Roe v. Wade, CFR, affirmative action, etc.
Looks like the Dems will have to find a new spokesman. BWAHAHAHAHA!
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