[JohnHuang2]

Have a great weekend, y'all.

[Peach]

Excellent. Nailed.

[Dahoser]

...unlike when Clinton did it -- Echelon -- to crack Demi Moore's phone number.

Very funny and accurate.

How is that one President can totally sabotage the defense of this country by selling military secrets to communists, ignoring terrorists, and forbidding agencies from sharing information and no one in Washington can or does anything about it, while another President cannot have an uncooked kernel in a rice pilaf dish at Gitmo without ten employees at every federal agency stepping over each other to be the first to hand over a classified document to the MSM?

[xzins]

In 2002, the NSA's "domestic spying" program intercepted lots of cellphone talk about the "Brooklyn Bridge." Ashcroft's 'jackbooted thugs' alerted the NYPD, which swarmed the bridge with security. An "innocent American" was then overheard via phone intercept complaining that the bridge was "too hot" to do the job. He's now serving a 20-year sentence. Attack on the Brooklyn Bridge prevented. 'Dissent' crushed again in BushCo's Amerikkka! Thus, no terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

"... the NSA wiretaps do not break the law. The president's inherent power as commander in chief allows them..."

This is ultimately the correct answer about the president protecting the nation.

Congress authorized this military action....that makes the President's authority even more clear. The Constitution puts all intent to injure the US in the President's area.

As Commander-in-Chief the President is responsible for and the designated leader for countering ANY enemy activity.

Enemy activity....enemy activity....

This is simple stuff to any veteran. If your brigade has responsibility for enemy activity in Sector 5, then the brigade commander must deal with ANY enemy iniative, defense, liaison, logistic, etc.

If that Brigade Commander knowingly ignored any enemy activity, he would be legally derelict. If that Brigade Commander were required to get permission to deal with potentially time-sensitive enemy activity, then he would be seriously hamstrung in controlling his sector.

That notion...that all decisions on any matter must come from the top down....is the rule in most despotic armies in the world, and is one of the major reasons why the US military runs rings around them. Our military recognizes that commanders must have the freedom and flexibility to use initiative, mobiliy, and surprise.

This obviously is also true of the Commander in Chief if it is true of a simple brigade commander.

This nation now has far too many citizens who have no military experience. Unfortunately, this is also true of the US Congress.

[M Kehoe]

[Queue Guinness commercial]: "BRILLIANT!"

Have a great weekend my FRiend.

5.56mm

[CyberAnt]

I keep getting the sense that the dems just want the President to defer to them .. to the point Bush has to ASK PERMISSION to do his job. It's all about power - and the dems are not doing themselves any favors by trying to ursurp presidential authority given to Bush by the Constitution.

The public has already caught on. If they try to use the NSA issue - it's going to backfire - BIG TIME.