To: summer
On the other hand, there is part of me still sympathetic, in a way, to whomever is currently our nation's CinC, because I do not want that person to be hampered in carrying out the very difficult decisions and tasks required of that person. As a practical matter, insisting that all the rules be obeyed all the time invites paralysis -- and not just in military matters. But a little 'practical' cheating is one thing, and claiming the wholesale invalidation of the rules is another.
51 posted on
01/17/2006 7:32:24 AM PST by
Grut
To: Grut
I was looking over this thread from earlier in the week, saw your replies, and thought you might find the following interesting
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"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."
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"We agree with the district court that the Executive Branch need not always obtain a warrant for foreign intelligence surveillance."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the Presidents constitutional power."
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63 posted on
01/18/2006 7:02:11 AM PST by
Boot Hill
("...and Joshua went unto him and said: art thou for us, or for our adversaries?")
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