ACLU Panel Urges Impeachment Over NSA Spying

CNSNews ^ | February 21, 2006 | Monisha Bansal

[Quilla]

It's my understanding that Alabama taxpayers (I'm one) paid the ACLU $540,000 in attorney fees and expenses resulting from the Ten Commandments monument case against Judge Roy Moore.

[Dawgreg]

The ACLU has become sooooo boring!

[TChris]

Umm, pardon me, ACLU, but your blatant hypocrisy is showing.

We presume you'll be decrying every former president who has ever evesdropped on an American citizen. You could even start with William Jefferson Clinton, just to get warmed up.

The ACLU disgusts me like a puddle of maggot-swarmed sewage would. (But that's an insult to both maggots and sewage...)

[KC_Conspirator]

"If the political alignment in the country were otherwise, impeachment would be a no-brainer," said Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard University.

Yes, if the country was Stalinist/Fascist like you Herr Tribe, then executions and death camps would be a no brainer.

[Bommer]

Tribe added that wiretapping is not an inherent power of the presidency. "That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against."

So its really falls under the inherent power of unelected judges?

[righttackle44]

"Please see my post #30.
"Thank you."

Pretty disgusting guy.

[Boot Hill]

RonF:   "Why didn't the President run taps, etc., though the FISA court?"

Because virtually every court that has ever addressed this matter over the last 30 years, both pre-FISA and post-FISA, and notably including even the FISA court itself, has concluded that the President does have the inherent constitutional power to conduct warrantless surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence information.

(And before you ask, "foreign" intelligence intercepts is what the NSA spying controversy is all about.)