"We aren't wat war with all those other groups. Maybe we should be, but right now efforst to counter those other groups is rightly being handled by law enforcement and international cooperation."
Surely you don't claim to know the details of how we're handling these other groups. If you're as smart as you sound, surely you know that 95% of this war will be fought without the rest of the world even knowing what happened.
"To put it another way, "is it OK for the president to circumvent the law." "
Whether or not it's "OK" is certainly debateable, but, as I pointed out above, there is precedence for it.
Well the whole problem here is the assumption is completely wrong. The President did NOT circumvent any laws. That is just another one of those made up Leftist lies they scream over and over hoping no one will point out it a merely another LIE. The Presidents powers as Commander in Chief give him authority to "Repel Sudden Attack." To do that the Military must gater intelligence on enemy activity. \
By engaging in correspondence with enemy groups like Al Qeda the various US Citizens are in a state of Insurrection against the Legal US Authority as elected by WE the people. WE the people have the right to expect OUR elected Govt via the Executive Branch to protect us from those who mean us harm.
Nice the Hysteric Leftist have opinions, too bad for them their opinions are not facts. The FISA Court ruled on this all ready. THEIR opinion does matter. That they ruled against the knee jerk Bush haters means this "Circumventing the law" accusation is merely the deranged rantings of hysteric Know Nothings, not a serious legal opinion.
Actually I can say with great confidence that the "war" against these groups is, in fact, being handled by law enforcement and international cooperation.