Posted on 01/28/2006 9:13:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Yes, that is what he said. What all of them said. And FYI, I think the show started last week. It is Wallstreet's Opinion Journal. Interesting, huh?
I didn't see it last week...it is a good show...but at 30 minutes...I think they aren't giving them enough time.
They will..depending on ratings. :)
I was a bit surprised to see this Q&A pop-up myself. Of course, it comes out on a Saturday evening, but..
I wanted to make sure it got posted, and as you said , it is progress in that it does define basics behind the program and is not a complete fudgejob as has been most of the reporting to date re: the NSA "Domestic" "spying" "scandal" ..
Wow...I am impressed...you really know your stuff...maybe you should apply to help out.
Regardless of the "legality" of this...as was pointed out in other posts...these taps are not being used to gather evidence for a trial per se...it is to stop another attack...or find out where the cells are, in and out of the US...IMHO..
And...I can't believe the democrats and some Rinos, like Specter and McCain, are going to force hearings that will just harm our clandestine terrorism fight more than it already has been...
It is a lose-lose plan for them....and ultimately a possible lose situation for the US...if this causes us to miss some intelligence that we might have had..if this had been kept secret.
RATZ have selective memory.
You took the words right out of my mouth....these liberals don't realize that these people want our heads in a basket, or, if they do, their insatible desire for power has blinded them completly.
Refresh my memory...I was so excited about their take on the NSA "scandal"...that I have forgotten what they said about Alito...
It may be really about the commerce clause, which the Democrats used heavily for much of their legislation when they controlled the House.
Rehnquist in 1995 had an opinion on the overreaching of Congress on that....not sure of my details though.
NYT/CBS Poll Undersamples Republicans, Still Shows Approval For NSA Program
January 27, 2006
Oh...okay....I remember Feinstein spent almost as much time grilling him about the commerce clause as his abortion stance.
I think the commerce clause concern is mostly about guns...
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Once again, The New York Times and CBS News have released a poll suggesting electoral doom for the GOP and the President, as well as saying the public's views are "mixed" when it comes to the NSA Surveillance program depending on how the questions are asked.
That's true in any poll, but what the NYT doesn't tell you is that the questions they asked were misleading and did not accurately reflect the nature of the NSA program. Oh, and the demographics were once again weighted in favor of Democrats.
Click READ MORE to see us (once again) utterly demolish an "Old Media" poll.
But here's what you won't see in the news stories. - the demography of the poll respondents
First, 13% of respondents aren't even registerd to vote, and of those that were registered, 19% didn't go to the polls in 2004. So right away you know that 32% of the total respondents didn't vote in 2004.
The Commerce Clause is used heavily to regulate all kinds of things....the democrats favorite technique....and they don't want it shut down.
You can say that again!
"However, because of the President's constitutional duty to act for the United States in the field of foreign relations, and his inherent power to protect national security in the context of foreign affairs, we reaffirm what we held in United States v. Clay, supra, that the President may constitutionally authorize warrantless wiretaps for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence."
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"We agree with the district court that the Executive Branch need not always obtain a warrant for foreign intelligence surveillance."
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"Prior to the enactment of FISA, virtually every court that had addressed the issue had concluded that the President had the inherent 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."
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"The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent [constitutional] authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information."
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