Secondly, I never suggested Bush is doing any of this - but arguments over enhanced war powers for the President suggest that Bush should operate independently of the Constitution if he deems it necessary for the war effort. If so, then at what point do you think that Bush has exercised way more power than he should, if you do think in fact there is such a point? Granted that the question was ducked over whether or not the President has the legal authority to do most of that list in time of war, but if you suggest that the powers of the presidency are not unlimited in wartime then what are the limits?
it depends on the degree to which the things you have listed would come under the control (inside the US) of an agent of a foreign power. would you have allowed a Nazi radio station to setup and broadcast all over the US during WWII under first amendment protection? suppose it could be shown that an "organized religion" was essentially a front group for an agent of a foreign enemy inside the US, would the constitutional protection for freedom of religion mean it could not be "shut down"?