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To: Boot Hill
However, I didn't restrict my reply to merely holdings.

You can talk about Pluto's moon if you want, but if you think you're contradicting anything I said, or even putting it into any kind of relevant context, you're wrong. No court has ever held that Congress's doesn't have the power to "infringe" the President's conduct of military ops or foreign policy. That's what's relevant here.

32 posted on 02/13/2006 5:40:36 PM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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To: inquest

Actually, and despite your sincere assurances to the contrary, that's mostly irrelevant here.

FISA or no FISA, the President may continue to conduct his warrantless foreign intelligence gathering in full confidence of its legality and constitutionality, since he is armed with the decisions of virtually every court that has ever addressed this issue, who have concluded that the President had the inherent constitutional 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.

Every other argument is just window-dressing.

33 posted on 02/13/2006 6:28:53 PM PST by Boot Hill ("...and Joshua went unto him and said: art thou for us, or for our adversaries?")
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