Of course not. Were Japanese agents calling spies in the USA? Probably, and I'm sure we intercepted some of them. Please also remember that we put Japanese nationals in detention camps, legally. Why haven't we done that to Muslims here today? Do you think that would be legal now??
There is no ultimate ruling on the constitutional muster of the detention order.
Links to cites: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550346/posts?page=270#270
The court expressly avoided the issue of internment in Korematsu, and deftly avoided it in Endo.
Sorry, not just Japanese nationals, but US citizens of Japanese descent.
"When we broke the Jap code and used it to win the Battle of Midway, we didnt get a warrant for spying. Was that wrong???"
"Of course not. Were Japanese agents calling spies in the USA? Probably, and I'm sure we intercepted some of them."
And it would be strange indeed if the US army had to get court orders on any transmissions on US soil to Japanese contacts.
This is the issue. The Dems see this as a 'law enforcement' issue, and many of us see this is a wartime powers issue.
The President is well within rights to do this under the latter powers, and this is clearly not purely 'law enforcement' since what we are doing is preventing the next crime, not solving the last one.
"Please also remember that we put Japanese nationals in detention camps, legally."
It wasnt right then and wouldnt be legal now, USSC Korematsu decision was wrong.
"Why haven't we done that to Muslims here today? Do you think that would be legal now??"
No. Do you?
That's a bit of a red herring to bring up vis a vis a very limited, focussed, justified, not-very-instrusive program that is picking up information from those who talk to suspected terrorists.
Gore called the NSA program a 'massive domestic wiretap program'. Well, it's not massive, it's not domestic, and it's not really wiretapping. but other than that, he has it pegged.