It’s Legal: The solid legal basis for the administration’s surveillance program

NRO (National Review Online) ^ | March 15, 2006 | Byron York

[oldtimer2]

The same thing is true of The War Powers Act. You notice that the dems have never taken either act to the Supreme Court. They know that both would be declared unconstitutional.

[STARWISE]

Wussy and Rocky must be SO depressed today ....not to mention the NYTimes here ya go, Rat Traitors ....

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Benedict Arnold

On the grounds of the Saratoga National Historic Park, there rests a monument to Benedict Arnold's leg.

It sits on the spot where Arnold fell wounded during the Battle of Freeman's Farm. He had just led a brilliant charge against a British redoubt—the culmination of a day of extraordinary field generalship that led one of his soldiers to later write of Arnold that he was "the very genius of war."

The leg was severely wounded, bleeding copiously, and pinned beneath Arnold's own horse. It survived the battle and the war.

Arnold, of course, did, too. But in the process, he turned from one of the great heroes of the American Revolution into the epitome of traitorousness.

Some of the seeds of his treachery were planted during his recuperation from that wound at Saratoga. Arnold started to become embittered by what he saw as a lack of recognition for his military genius on the part Congress and the Continental Army. Just a year and a half after his gallantry at Saratoga, Arnold offered his services to the British. Specifically, he planned to hand over the keys to West Point, a crucial American fort on the Hudson which Arnold commanded.

The plot quickly unraveled. Arnold's contact with the British army, Major John Andre', was captured by American forces with letters implicating Arnold in his boot. Andre' was hanged. Arnold escaped to the British on a frigate called Vulture---one vulture receiving another, Thomas Paine wrote in one of his Crisis papers.

Arnold went on to command British forces against American troops in his native Connecticut, but the war was soon over, and Arnold had made the grave mistake of jumping to the losing side. In the new republic, his name was reviled; in England, where he sailed after the Revolution, he received an ambivalent reception.

He died there in 1801.

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While Arnold has a "leg up" on today's traitors, they deserve no less ostracism and denouncing for their bitter and treacherous egomaniacal pursuits and appalling sedition in a time of war.

God Bless President George W. Bush!

[Txsleuth]

Would Napalitano care???

I doubt it...

[LurkingSince'98]

you can find the actual case here:

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/fisa111802opn.pdf

Regards,
Lurking'

[LurkingSince'98]

you can also find the original FISA Case here:

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/fisa51702opn.pdf

Lurking'

[Smartass]

Face it, the Dem party and ACLU have been, and always will be, TRAITORS to this country. Both have not just dug, but have bulldozed as hard as they can to undermine the war on terror.

The usual suspects. One just has to look at the players and actors promoting the antiwar movement and the undermining of America. They're all connected by different names, however, by a common thread of being either democrats, progressives (socialists), twisted ACLU lawyers and communists.

[prairiebreeze]

Thank you for the pings! Will send this out to my email list. Probably a very good explanation as to why the FISA judge (name escaping me at the moment) resigned....

Oh, and God bless John Ashcroft. And Ted Olson, RIP Barbara.

[onyx]

I love your post!
Informative and humorous!

[onyx]

Thanks for the alert, Mo.
Good going, oldtimer2!

[Cboldt]

you can find the actual case here:
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/fisa111802opn.pdf

Yep .. and in other places too.

In Re: Sealed Case No. 02-001, 310 F.3d 717 (Foreign Int. Surv. Ct. Rev. 2002)
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fiscr111802.html <- HTML
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/fisa/FISCR_opinion.pdf <- PDF
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/fisa111802opn.pdf <- Alt. PDF

Case below (reversed by "In Re: Sealed Case") ...
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/fisa51702opn.pdf

Government's supplemental brief [contains good summary of Title III v. FISA] ...
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/092502sup.html

Was a substantial part of DoJ's justification, discussed at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545787/posts

[not-alone]

Thanks for the post

[STARWISE]

; ) Dare I ask: what body parts of these current Rat traitors would we like to see enshrined in shame for all to remember? (Oh my, don't slap me ;)

[onyx]

LOL!

[lepton]

Interesting to note that the Judge who resigned in a huff from the FISA court is also the one who was admonished by the FISA appeals court for making stuff up.

[lepton]

Robertson, IIRC

[buck61]

FISA should be abolished. Yes it should and you would think now is the time to do it, but we have too many RINOS to do it.
I keep writing that the GOP has the golden opportunity to change things in Washington while in power.

[Peach]

Thanks for the ping, Mo. This goes along with another article in my files about how the FISA appeals court met and decided the NSA spying was legal.

Brit Hume is reporting that two Democrats have joined with Rusty boy. Tom Harin and Barbara Boxer.

[Hardastarboard]

And yet, another brick in the DNC wall of lies, falls to the ground, smashed into dust...

An event which will never be recognized in the MSM.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Thanks. Bump for later.

[El Gato]

Bottom line is that the Court of Review has ALREADY GIVEN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH BROAD POWERS TO CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE.

They didn't give the executive branch anything. The Constitution did that, they merely upheld the Constitution.

Imagine that, a 3 judge federal court upholding the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. Now I know where that order for red long underwear with an extra hole for a third lower appendage came from back in '02.