Posted on 01/16/2006 8:15:35 AM PST by ken5050
He's BAAAAACK! Yup, Prince Alberta, newly relocated to the liberal mecca of San Francisco ensconsed in his new multi-million $$ condo, working in the venture capital field (all bad things when he was running for the WH) will today crawl out from under his rock to deliver himself of a major address about the "evils of executive power"
Will you ping me to the 24 thread this time?
SURE!
Did you watch last night???
A "large third party" with Gore at the head of the ticket takes a minimum -10% straight off the top of Hillary's numbers.
Not only that, but it ensures Gore with Fed matching funds for 2012, thus ensuring the final demise of the Donkey party. A Gore third party (or on the Green ticket) is a GOP dream scenario.
Warrantless surveillance on terror suspects not new or illegal
Commentary by Michael Barone
The New York Times' Christmas gift—sorry, holiday gift—to the nation's political dialogue was its Dec. 16 story reporting that the National Security Agency has been intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects abroad and U.S. citizens or legal residents in the United States.
What the Times didn't bother telling its readers is that this practice is far from new and is entirely legal. Instead, the unspoken subtext of the story was that this was likely an illegal and certainly a very scary invasion of Americans' rights.
Let's put the issue very simply. The president has the power as commander in chief under the Constitution to intercept and monitor the communications of America's enemies. Indeed, it would be a very weird interpretation of the Constitution to say that the commander in chief could order U.S. forces to kill America's enemies but not to wiretap—or, more likely these days, electronically intercept—their communications. Presidents have asserted and exercised this power repeatedly and consistently over the last quarter-century.
To be sure, federal courts have ruled that the Fourth Amendment's bar of “unreasonable” searches and seizures limits the president's power to intercept communications without obtaining a warrant. But that doesn't apply to foreign intercepts, as the Supreme Court made clear in a 1972 case, writing, “The instant case requires no judgment on the scope of the president's surveillance power with respect to the activities of foreign powers, within or without this country.” The federal courts of appeals for the 5th, 3rd, 9th and 4th Circuits, in cases decided in 1970, 1974, 1977 and 1980, took the same view. In 2002, the special federal court superintending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wrote, “The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the president did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. ... We take for granted that the president does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the president's constitutional power.”
Warrantless intercepts of the communications of foreign powers were undertaken as long ago as 1979, by the Carter administration. In 1994, Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, testified to Congress, “The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes.”
In the Dec. 15 Chicago Tribune, John Schmidt, associate attorney general in the Clinton administration, laid it out cold: “President Bush's post-Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents.”
Don't interrupt Dims with the facts when they're on a roll.
It took Biden twelve minutes last week to ask soon-to-be Associate Justice Alito one question. Excessive bombasticity seems to be a symptom of the mental disorder called Liberalism.
Bush bad.
Democrats good.
Fire bad.
Food good.
Signed: Al Gore, the LOSER of 2000
Roger that.
What a bunch of hooey! They must think the public possesses the worldliness of a seven year old. Well, that probably applies to 30%.
I'm a conservative who follows you guys and gals here at times. I ain't no Gore fan, but this spying shit has got to go. Barr and Gore are doing the right thing. Shame on you "conservatives" who say otherwise. Your willingness to sell our freedoms for protection will lead to the loss of our republic. That's bad, man. It's not right. I think I will get my news elsewhere from now on if this is how this site thinks.
Only Democrat Presidents should be allowed to have unlimited power -- because they know how things should be.
You'd think I would have learned by now.
I'm a conservative who follows you guys and gals here at times. I ain't no Gore fan, but this spying shit has got to go. Barr and Gore are doing the right thing. Shame on you "conservatives" who say otherwise. Your willingness to sell our freedoms for protection will lead to the loss of our republic. That's bad, man. It's not right. I think I will get my news elsewhere from now on if this is how this site thinks.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/tonysnow/2005/12/09/178552.html
Publish the Barrett report now
http://www.nysun.com/article/25880
Cisneros Probe Stirred Worries Of Democrats
Dog ain't gonna hunt. How is the MSM going to swing public opinion which -- even though reported by minimum 10% Leftward-biased polling -- reveals that 65% of the public is IN FAVOR OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S DECISION TO TAP THE PHONES OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS talking to people who are in the USA? This probably equates to 75% in favor, which in political arena equals 100%, as in game over. The general public is WAY AHEAD of the elitist MSM/Dimo cabal on this issue.
He must have forgotten!!! Gore is back and looks like he has dropped a ton!!! He is in running form. Wonder what Hill's Plan B will be? It will be interesting???
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