[Howlin]

Judge Napolitano on Fox just said that one of the senators got upset with something that was said in one of those meetings and decided to leak it.

Did anybody else hear that? Does anybody else know anything about that?

[A Citizen Reporter]

I don't know anything specifically, but in listening to this hearing today, I hear Senators that seem to be worried that they are being eavesdropped on. Which makes me wonder what in the heck they are doing that they are worried about being caught.

And I'm not just talking about the dims.

[Mo1]

Judge Napolitano on Fox just said that one of the senators got upset with something that was said in one of those meetings and decided to leak it.

Soooooooo a Senator did leak it huh???

$10 says it was Rockefeller

[MEG33]

I'm listening to Specter say the President did not have authority or implying his doubt.."I just hope there will be oversight to get into the details of this in secret Intelligence Committee meeting s to be sure there are reasonable parameters."

Nothing will be secret anymore therefore..not if the decisions are made in full committee.

[excludethis]

Another fine American sent me these quotes!!

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."--United States v. Brown, 484 F.2d 418, 426 (1973)



"We agree with the district court that the Executive Branch need not always obtain a warrant for foreign intelligence surveillance."--U.S. v. Truong Dinh Hung, 629 F.2d 908, 913 (1980)



"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."--United States v. Duggan, 743 F.2d 59 (1984)



"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."--In re Sealed Case, 310, F3d. 717, 742 (2002)


And since you mentioned the Prize cases, let me add this "bonus" quote!


"If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority." --The Amy Warwick (The "Prize Cases"), 67, U.S. 635, 668 (1862)