Posted on 12/26/2005 8:29:41 AM PST by kellynla
The New York Times' Christmas gift -- sorry, holiday gift -- to the nation's political dialogue was its Dec. 16 story reporting that the National Security Agency has been intercepting telephone conversations between terrorism suspects abroad and U.S. citizens or legal residents in the United States.
What the Times didn't bother telling its readers is that this practice is far from new and is entirely legal. Instead, the unspoken subtext of the story was that this was likely an illegal and certainly a very scary invasion of Americans' rights.
Let's put the issue very simply. The president has the power as commander in chief under the Constitution to intercept and monitor the communications of America's enemies. Indeed, it would be a very weird interpretation of the Constitution to say that the commander in chief could order U.S. forces to kill America's enemies but not to wiretap -- or, more likely these days, electronically intercept -- their communications. Presidents have asserted and exercised this power repeatedly and consistently over the last quarter-century.
The New York Times is nothing but a Short Sell opportunity.
Might want to point out to them how this has moved Bush's JA up to 50% for the 1st time since July. Going to be a real kick in the teeth for them when Reality bites them again.
Love the newest Talking Point. "Just because Bush says he didn't break the law doesn't mean he didn't". To which I respond, "Nether does your claiming he did mean he did".
Liberals must really be low low IQs. They seem as Evolutionary Challenged as the Dinasours or the Dodo birds.
N.Y. Times warns of profit plunge
By David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch
Last Update: 5:45 PM ET Dec. 21, 2005
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - New York Times Co. said after the market closed Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit would plunge 39% from that of a year earlier on charges related to job cuts announced in September, as well as stock-based compensation expense.
Make a profit on the demise of a Liberal Newspaper!
What a great opportinity to profit on the demise of these buttheads.
Simply put Big Media and their masters the Dems always suspect the worst about Republicans. These paranoid morons are more than ready to believe that Bush and other Republicans are eager to listen in on Demcratic-voting old Mrs. Jones who lives down street. Because they're evil, nasty fascists, they want to throw nice old Mrs. Jones into the klink for some cooked-up reason. Why Republicans would want to do this is left unsaid. It reveals more about the paranoid, screwy mental state of Dems than it does about the CIC.
The Constitution, Justice Robert Jackson famously wrote, should not be interpreted in a way that makes it "a suicide pact."
IINM, it was in Jackson's dissent in Terminiello v. Chicago (1949-ish), where wrote, "if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it is in danger of turning the Constitutional Bill of rights into a suicide pact."
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